“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 ...

For anyone fascinated by powers and integers, there’s no shortage of problems to tackle, whether by ingenious logic or massive computer search. In 1769, while thinking about the problem now known as ...

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, ...

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 22, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR ZHONG-CI SHI (MARCH 2004), pp. 220-229 (10 pages) In this paper, we perform a nonlinear ...