So much harder, in fact, that a few mathematicians in the 1500s spent their lives embroiled in bitter public feuds competing to do for cubics what was so easily done for quadratics. Solving equations ...

The Romans contributed precisely nothing to mathematics. The solution of cubics and quartics was the first substantial advance in mathematics in Europe since the days of the ancient Greeks.

The show’s immense popularity has given rise to its own fandom, known as Cubics, who exclusively support the “Going SEVENTEEN” variety show. From 2017 to 2023, over 200 episodes of the show ...