University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger has unveiled a potentially game-changing mathematical ...

A UNSW professor claims that a long-standing algebra problem can be solved with a new method that avoids irrational numbers.

How many alien societies exist, and are detectable? This famous formula gives us an idea. The Drake Equation, which was the agenda for a meeting of experts held in West Virginia in 1961, estimates N, ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Equations that have more than one unknown can have an infinite number of solutions. For example, \(2x + y = 10 ...

Find the solution to the equation \(x^3 + 5x = 20\) using the initial value \(x_0=2\), giving the answer to 3 decimal places. Find the solution to the equation \(x^3 + 5x = 20\) using the ...

The Hardy-Weinberg equation is a mathematical equation that can be used to calculate the genetic variation of a population at equilibrium. In 1908, G. H. Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg independently ...