“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 ...

Euler's identity: Math geeks extol its beauty, even finding in it hints of a myste­rious connected­ness in the universe. It's on tank tops and coffee mugs. Aliens, apparently, carve it into crop ...

A recent entry in the visitor’s book of the James Joyce Tower & Museum in Sandycove, Dublin, perplexed the Friends of Joyce’s Tower, the volunteers who run the museum. The entry, reproduced as the ...

Discover how Euler's equation inspired a mathematician's unique tattoo during a Number Theory class. A journey into math's beauty. Billy Hudson, a mathematician, writes, "I was in a introductory ...

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 ...

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 derivation of the dynamical equation of motion (EOM) for a system is a straight-forward application of what we have learned from Chapter 5 in using the Newton-Euler equations. The goal in deriving ...