Even the best and most prolific of mathematicians have had to do homework assignments. Famed Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) was no exception. Euler was only 14 years old when he was ...

Fluid mechanics owes a lot of its early findings and theories to Swiss polymath Daniel Bernoulli. Daniel was born on February 8, 1700, in Groningen, the Netherlands, into a family of distinguished ...

The Science Quiz appears twice a week in the daily science page. The page is available to read on all days except Saturday in the epaper. Questions (answers at the bottom): 1. The Bernoulli numbers ...

For an appropriate understanding of Leibniz's calculus the concept of differential is a crucial one. In Die Differentialrechnung nach Leibniz -eine Rekonstruktion (published in this journal in 2001) ...