We’ve revisited a few veteran applications recently, but nothing that quite competes with Euler Math Toolbox, which began life in 1988 as a program for the Atari ST. These days, and still being ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Davide Castelvecchi reviews a hefty biography of the prolific Enlightenment luminary Leonhard Euler. The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–83) was all but blind when he moved to St Petersburg ...
“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 ...
Major reforms and inventions often begin with a line of mathematics. For students, equations can look abstract on a classroom board. Yet some of them reorganised science, engineering and economics.
Das Haus-vom-Nikolaus-Problem ist mit einem anderen bekannten Rätsel der Mathematikgeschichte verwandt, dem sogenannten Königsberger Brückenproblem. Es bezieht sich auf den Stadtplan von Königsberg ...
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