A recent entry in the visitor’s book of the James Joyce Tower & Museum in Sandycove, Dublin, perplexed the Friends of Joyce’s Tower, the volunteers who run the museum. The entry, reproduced as the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

For almost 200 years, Euler’s conjecture reigned in mathematics unchecked. Then, a paper came out that turned the whole thing on its head… and it did it all in just two sentences. In 1769, ...

Post has been corrected. See note at bottom for details. Leonhard Euler, a Swiss mathematician who continued to work on complex equations from memory even after he went blind, is honored in Monday’s ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Pi Day is upon us again, for those who note today’s date in the format 3/14 (March 14). But rather than talk about Pi Day itself, as I did last year, this year I want to talk about Pi and mathematical ...

What is it that makes Euler's identity, e]iPi + 1 = 0, so special? In Euler's Pioneering Equation Robin Wilson shows how this simple, elegant, and profound formula links together perhaps the five most ...

The highlight of the 13th and final book of Euclid's Elements was the proof that there are just five "Platonic solids". Recall that a regular polygon is a plane figure with all sides and angles equal, ...