To a nonmathematician, having the letter "i" represent a number that does not quite exist and is "imaginary" can be hard to ...

Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number representing the constant ratio of a circle’s circumference to its ...

Although commonly associated with and named after Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, it was first discovered in 1683 by mathematician Jacob Bernoulli. He was trying to determine how wealth would ...

Scientists have calculated the value of pi to one hundred trillion digits, but you don't have to be a mathematician to ...

More by Leonhard Euler This article was originally published with the title “ Leonhard Euler and the Koenigsberg Bridges ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 189 No. 1 ( July 1953 ) , p. 66 ...

give rise to an equation known as the Euler equation (named after physicist, astronomer and polymath Leonhard Euler 1707–1783 ...

Not matter how you slice it, March 14 has something for everyone. The national holiday has been celebrated for decades now, since the late 1980s, thanks to a San Francisco physicist. Larry Shaw, also ...