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In 1988, Euler's identity was elected most beautiful theorem of mathematics. It has been widely taught worldwide. But have you ever stopped to really sense the meaning of this incredible formula? This article does.

Last summer, I got to discover Morellet's artwork on inclined grids. Amazingly, this artwork is a display of the irrationality of ?2! It's also a strong argument for the existence of this number. In this article, after discussing that, I take readers further!

My first reaction to imaginary numbers was... What the hell is that? Even now, I have trouble getting my head around these mathematical objects. Fortunately, I have a secret weapon: Geometry! This article proposes constructing complex numbers with a very geometrical and intuitive approach.

This article explores the potency of proofs by induction with 4 different stunning puzzles, from a lock puzzle and a lion issue, to the monk problem and the pencil conundrum!

Although they have been used for thousands of years, an actual definition of numbers was given less than a century ago! From the most fundamental level of set theory, this article takes you to the journey of the construction of natural, integer, rational, real and complex numbers.

Is our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – a cultural invention rather than an innate ability? Members of a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea understand the concept of numbers but do not map them along a line, which suggests that the 'number line' must be learned.

For the Corporate Communications Department it is important to judge the success of particular measures. In the case of the Space Tweetup, evaluation was carried out using social media monitoring tools. This posts summarises the most important results below.

Born into a world of numbers, an oppressed zero discovers that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.

John Baez expounds on what makes the numbers 5, 8 and 24 so special.

En associant mathématiques et fiction commerciale à grand succès, la série Numb3rs se situe à l’intersection de la culture mathématique et la culture télévisuelle. L’article explore cette intersection, et interroge la représentation des mathématiques qui nous est donnée à voir.