“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.” —Benjamin ...

Many people find complex math puzzling, including some mathematicians. Recently, a mathematician has found solutions to a puzzle that has been around for centuries. They have found a way to generate ...

Discover how Euler's equation inspired a mathematician's unique tattoo during a Number Theory class. A journey into math's beauty. Billy Hudson, a mathematician, writes, "I was in a introductory ...

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 22, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR ZHONG-CI SHI (MARCH 2004), pp. 220-229 (10 pages) In this paper, we perform a nonlinear ...

Mathematical equations aren't just useful -- many are quite beautiful. And many scientists admit they are often fond of particular formulas not just for their function, but for their form, and the ...

Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 67, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 327-341 (15 pages) A wide class of linear ordinary differential equations reducible to algebraic equations is studied. The method for ...

At some point every year I find myself standing at the supermarket check out line perusing People Magazine's Most Beautiful People issue. Every year my reaction is the same, something like "Justin ...

The compressible Euler equations form the cornerstone of fluid dynamics, describing the conservation of mass, momentum and energy in a compressible fluid. When augmented by damping effects, these ...