“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.” —Benjamin ...

TUCSON, March 19 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists Daniel Madden and Lee Jacobi have solved "Euler's equation of degree four" -- a puzzle that has stymied scientists for centuries. Madden, a University of ...

Many people find complex math puzzling, including some mathematicians. Recently, a mathematician has found solutions to a puzzle that has been around for centuries. They have found a way to generate ...

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 ...

At some point every year I find myself standing at the supermarket check out line perusing People Magazine's Most Beautiful People issue. Every year my reaction is the same, something like "Justin ...

Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism and the Euler equation top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. Robert P Crease discusses the results of his reader survey First among equals – ...