Thatsmaths

The great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler produced profound and abundant mathematical works. Publication of his Opera Omnia began in 1911 and, with(...)

What are mathematicians really like? What are the characteristics or traits of personality typical among them? Mathematicians are rarely the heroes of(...)

Jakob Bernoulli, head of a dynasty of brilliant scholars, was one of the world’s leading mathematicians. His great work, Ars Conjectandi, published in(...)

In addition to some beautiful photos and maps and descriptions of upland challenges in Ireland and abroad, the November issue of the Summit, the Mount(...)

A remarkable French natural philosopher and mathematician who lived in the early 18th century, Émilie Du Châtelet, generally remembered for her transl(...)

Mathematics is distinguished from the sciences by the freedom it enjoys in choosing basic assumptions from which consequences can be deduced by applyi(...)

Edna St Vincent Millay’s sonnet “Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare” evokes the ethereal, otherworldly quality of mathematics. Scandalous behaviou(...)

There are numerous branches of mathematics, from the familiar arithmetic, geometry and algebra at an elementary level to more advanced branches such a(...)

The climate is changing, and we need to know what changes to expect and how soon to expect them. Earth system models, which simulate all relevant comp(...)

On a cold December night in 1976, a group of mathematicians assembled in a room in Trinity College Dublin for the inaugural meeting of the Irish Mathe(...)