In a boon to algebra students everywhere, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University has devised a simpler and more efficient way to solve problems involving the quadratic equation. The new method ...

If, while watching the Super Bowl, you had wanted to estimate how far a pass thrown by Patrick Mahomes traveled through the air, you would have been solving a quadratic equation. The equations ...

But he systematically set out word-­form linear and quadratic equations, with algorithmic methods for solving them ... In fact, the English word "algorithm” — meaning a set of rules ...