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, ...

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 ...

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 ...