At the height of Europe’s Enlightenment, one man illuminated mathematics like never before — even as darkness claimed his sight. Leonhard Euler unified entire branches of science through logic, ...

When Frederick the Great was crowned King of Prussia in 1740 he immediately revived the Berlin Academy of Sciences and invited scholars from throughout Europe to Berlin. The most luminous of these was ...

Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 67, No. 5 (September 2013), pp. 477-551 (75 pages) The analysis of unpublished manuscripts and of the published textbook on mechanics written between about ...

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 ...

Even the best and most prolific of mathematicians have had to do homework assignments. Famed Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) was no exception. Euler was only 14 years old when he was ...

Internet search giant Google has given mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler the Google Doodle treatment today, on the 306th anniversary of his birth. The Google Doodle – a stylised Google logo ...

Today Google, the search engine giant, celebrates Leonhard Euler's 306th birth anniversary with an animated Google doodle. His area of work included continuum physics, algebra, lunar theory, ...

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 ...

Discover the list of 9 most famous mathematicians in history. Learn about Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, whose ideas shaped ...

The prolific Euler, pronounced ‘Oiler’, developed many of the notations mathematicians still use today, while also making discoveries in fields from infinitesimal calculus to graph theory. He is the ...