“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 ...

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 ...

Billy Hudson, a mathematician, writes, “I was in a introductory Number Theory class when Professor David Ferguson told me that e^(ipi) + 1 = 0. Of course, Euler’s equation had the same affect on me as ...

For anyone fascinated by powers and integers, there’s no shortage of problems to tackle, whether by ingenious logic or massive computer search. In 1769, while thinking about the problem now known as ...

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 ...

Explore the profound connection between Euler's Identity and the Taylor series, two foundational concepts in mathematics. This overview explains how the expansion of exponential functions using the ...