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, ...

Mathematics is not easy to explain, and many authors writing popular mathematics go out of their way not to lose their readers, perhaps bearing in mind Hawking's famous dictum that each equation ...

Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one. Mathematicians have suspected for years that under specific ...