IN the published correspondence of Euler there is a note from him to Goldbach, or, the other way, from Goldbach to Euler, in which a very wonderful theorem is stated which has never been proved by ...

Major reforms and inventions often begin with a line of mathematics. For students, equations can look abstract on a classroom ...

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 – ...

The four stamps, issued by China Post, each depicts pi the mathematical constant, the Pythagorean theorem, Euler's formula and Mobius strip. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] They are enthralled by ...