Despite some of the holes in the Proof, its powerful story and its characters ultimately round out the production, leaving viewers with an impressive theatrical experience. Proof is playing at the ...

Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need.

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Mathematician discovers a simpler way to solve the quadratic equation that could fundamentally change the way students are taught math. A professor at Carnegie Mellon found a new way to solve the ...

The quadratic equation has frustrated math students for millenniums. But a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh may have come up with a better way of solving it.

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The new proof shows that this mathematical intuition is indeed correct, at least for a certain class of shapes (those, such as a donut, that have at least one hole).