This video explores how Euler connected pi, square roots, and one half using factorials, revealing the deep relationships ...

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 ...

This video explores one of Leonhard Euler’s most elegant ideas, showing how factorials can be used to connect π, square roots ...

“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 ...

Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician who continued to work on complex equations from memory even after he went blind, is honored in Monday’s Google Doodle on the 306th anniversary of his birth. Euler ...

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 – ...

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the May 1961 issue of Scientific American. Sherman K. Stein is currently professor emeritus of mathematics at University of California, Davis. He is ...

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During the 18th century the denizens of the Prussian city of Königsberg wrestled with a puzzle: How could they find a walking path through the city that crossed each of its storied seven bridges ...