Before being mortally wounded in a duel at age 20, Évariste Galois discovered the hidden structure of polynomial equations. By studying the relationships between their solutions — rather than the ...
In this article we consider matrix factorizations of a polynomial where the two matrices appearing in the factorization are the same, which we call "matrix square roots." The main result is that any ...
In 2015, the poet-turned-mathematician June Huh helped solve a problem posed about 50 years earlier. The problem was about complex mathematical objects called “matroids” and combinations of points and ...