How better to do so than to talk about the 18th century European scholar Leonhard Euler’s famous formula: Often described as “the most beautiful formula in mathematics”, Euler seems never to have ...

Mathematics Magazine presents articles and notes on undergraduate mathematical topics in a lively expository style that appeals to students and faculty throughout the undergraduate years. The journal ...

WHILE Paul Nahin is not the first to proclaim the power and beauty of mathematics, few have alluded to the “erotic connection between mathematical insight and sexual orgasm”. A stretch too far, ...

Mathematicians sometimes say they find beauty in mathematical formulas, and a new brain scan study confirms that equations can activate the brain in much the same way that great art does. "To many of ...

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 Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

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 ...