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 ...

“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 ...

WHILE Paul Nahin is not the first to proclaim the power and beauty of mathematics, few have alluded to the “erotic connection between mathematical insight and sexual orgasm”. A stretch too far, ...

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 ...

Mathematics is not easy to explain, and many authors writing popular mathematics go out of their way not to lose their readers, perhaps bearing in mind Hawking's famous dictum that each equation ...