When I took Calculus in college, my Professor would give us substantial partial credit for test problems that we got wrong for minor arithmetic errors, and rightfully so, too. Sometimes even ...

The Abhyankar-Sathaye Problem asks whether any biregular embedding $\varphi \colon {\Bbb C}^{k}\hookrightarrow {\Bbb C}^{n}$ can be rectified, that is, whether there exists an automorphism α ∈ Aut Cn ...

If \((x \pm h)\) is a factor of a polynomial, then the remainder will be zero. Conversely, if the remainder is zero, then \((x \pm h)\) is a factor. Often ...

The oldest mathematics journal in the Western Hemisphere in continuous publication, the American Journal of Mathematics ranks as one of the most respected and celebrated journals in its field.

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