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.

Despite his initial demurral, Euler did end up solving the puzzle of the seven bridges of Königsberg, unaware that in the process he had birthed two new branches of math. On supporting science ...

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 ...