Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...

Prime numbers, those integers divisible only by one and themselves, have fascinated mathematicians for millennia. Their ...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler, born in Switzerland in 1707, spent most of his career in St Petersburg. His work is of singular genius, originality and profundity.

The street is named after Leonhard Euler, a prolific mathematical genius and native of Basle who died in 1783 - the same year that he invented his "carrés magiques" or magic squares, a diabolical ...

The theories of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) revolutionised our understanding of the Universe. With the famous equation that bears his name, Euler gave scientists a ...

The brilliant Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler had cut his teeth on it and failed to solve it. Now Apéry, a French mathematician who was relatively unknown and in his 60s at the time, had ...

Perhaps the oldest and most prominent of these equations, formulated by Leonhard Euler more than 250 years ago, describe the flow of an ideal, incompressible fluid: a fluid with no viscosity, or ...