News from the world of maths:

Submitted by plusadmin on July 16, 2008

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Mathematicians working on one of the bedrocks of mathematics, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (FTA), have recently found collaborative allies in the unlikely field of astrophysics.

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