Texas Public Radio

How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.
Scientific American

The million-dollar race to ‘blow up’ math’s hardest equations

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...