Even the best and most prolific of mathematicians have had to do homework assignments. Famed Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) was no exception. Euler was only 14 years old when he was ...

Although Paul Erdos may well be the most prolific mathematician of the 20th century, I believe the title of most prolific mathematician ever belongs to Leonhard Euler (1707-83) (“Are Mathematicians ...

A few years ago, a mathematician and a neuroscientist led a study investigating “the experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates.” The methodology rolled 14 mathematicians into a ...

In 1779, the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler posed a puzzle that has since become famous: Six army regiments each have six officers of six different ranks. Can the 36 officers be arranged in a 6-by ...

New research published in the mathematical journal Geometry and Topology describes a useful pattern of numbers that has lain hidden for almost 100 years in one of the most notable classification ...