How better to do so than to talk about the 18th century European scholar Leonhard Euler’s famous formula: Often described as “the most beautiful formula in mathematics”, Euler seems never to have ...

Mathematics Magazine presents articles and notes on undergraduate mathematical topics in a lively expository style that appeals to students and faculty throughout the undergraduate years. The journal ...

WHILE Paul Nahin is not the first to proclaim the power and beauty of mathematics, few have alluded to the “erotic connection between mathematical insight and sexual orgasm”. A stretch too far, ...

What is it that makes Euler's identity, e]iPi + 1 = 0, so special? In Euler's Pioneering Equation Robin Wilson shows how this simple, elegant, and profound formula links together perhaps the five most ...

Pink Floyd sang ‘We don’t need no education!’ and it has become an anthem for generations who hated the regimentation of STEM education and fought to add an ‘A’ to the acronym and make it STEAM. But ...

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, ...

Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician who continued to work on complex equations from memory even after he went blind, is honored in Monday’s Google Doodle on the 306th anniversary of his birth. Euler ...

Mathematicians are an odd bunch. Isaac Newton was decidedly unpleasant, secretive and resentful while Carl Friedrich Gauss, according to several biographies, was cold and austere, more likely to ...

The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–83) was all but blind when he moved to St Petersburg in 1766 for a second stint as the star of the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. He had lost vision ...