It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...
In the 18th century, the Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler believed that a set of laws could be developed to explain the behaviour of fluid based on Isaac Newton’s deterministic ...
The brilliant Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler had cut his teeth on it and failed to solve it. Now Apéry, a French mathematician who was relatively unknown and in his 60s at the time ...