Given that humans have been studying numbers for thousands of years, you might think we know everything about the number 3. But mathematicians recently discovered something new about 3: a third way to ...
The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...
If you notice that the first term is a perfect square, and the second term is a perfect square, and you have a negative here, we can say that it is "the difference of two squares." What we want to do ...