Even the best and most prolific of mathematicians have had to do homework assignments. Famed Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) was no exception. Euler was only 14 years old when he was ...

Although Paul Erdos may well be the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, I believe the title of most prolific mathematician ever belongs to Leonhard Euler (1707-83) (“Are Mathematicians ...

Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment. By Ronald Calinger. Princeton University Press; 669 pages; $55 and £37.95. LEONHARD EULER is hardly a household name. Born in Switzerland in ...

A few years ago, a mathematician and a neuroscientist led a study investigating “the experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates.” The methodology rolled 14 mathematicians into a ...

Jonathan Borwein (Jon) receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Often described as “the most beautiful formula in mathematics”, Euler seems never to have actually written it down – ...

Since mathematicians became a thing in Babylonia somewhere around 2000 BC, number crunchers have been mystified by ocean waves. About 300 years ago, the Leonhard Euler fluid-dynamics equations ...

Mathematicians attended Roger Apéry’s lecture at a French National Center for Scientific Research conference in June 1978 with a great deal of skepticism. The presentation was entitled “On the ...