“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 ...

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 ...

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 67, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 327-341 (15 pages) A wide class of linear ordinary differential equations reducible to algebraic equations is studied. The method for ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jun., 1987), pp. 538-582 (45 pages) We prove the convergence of a large class of vortex methods for two-dimensional incompressible, inviscid flows ...

Why is it that particular equations, formulas and expressions become icons, asks Robert P Crease For some people this expression, named after the 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, even ...