IN the published correspondence of Euler there is a note from him to Goldbach, or, the other way, from Goldbach to Euler, in which a very wonderful theorem is stated which has never been proved by ...

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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 ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

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, ...

Mathematics is not easy to explain, and many authors writing popular mathematics go out of their way not to lose their readers, perhaps bearing in mind Hawking's famous dictum that each equation ...

The four stamps, issued by China Post, each depicts pi the mathematical constant, the Pythagorean theorem, Euler's formula and Mobius strip. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] They are enthralled by ...