Eureka is a journal published annually by The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of Cambridge University. It is one of the oldest recreational mathematics publications still in existence. Eureka includes many mathematical articles on a variety of different topics – written by students and mathematicians from all over the world – as well as a short summary of the activities of the society, problem sets, puzzles, artwork and book reviews.
Eureka has been published 66 times since 1939, and authors include many famous mathematicians and scientists such as Paul Erdős, Martin Gardner, Douglas Hofstadter, G. H. Hardy, Béla Bollobás, John Conway, Stephen Hawking, W. T. Tutte (writing with friends under the pseudonyms Blanche Descartes and F. de Carteblanche), popular maths writer Ian Stewart, Fields Medallist Timothy Gowers and Nobel laureates Paul Dirac and Roger Penrose.
The journal was formerly distributed free of charge to all current members of the Archimedeans. Today, it is published electronically as well as in print. In 2020, the publication archive was made freely available online.
Eureka is edited by students from the university. +Recent issues of EurekaIssuePublication dateEditorEureka 67October 2024Chenyue (Linda) Zou, Saanya Verma and Christopher HoefleinEureka 66October 2020Valentin HübnerEureka 65April 2018Michael GraylingEureka 64April 2016Long Tin ChanEureka 63September 2014Jasper BirdEureka 62December 2012Jack Williams and Philipp LegnerEureka 61October 2011Philipp Legner and Anja KomatarEureka 60November 2010Philipp LegnerEureka 59June 2008James WestEureka 58September 2006Shu Kris ChenEureka 57May 2005Erica ThompsonEureka 56March 2004Vicky NealeEureka 55June 2001Alan BainEureka 54March 1996Alan BainEureka 53February 1994Colin BellEureka 52March 1993Michael T. GreeneEureka 51March 1992Mark WainwrightEureka 50April 1990Mark Wainwright Of the mathematical articles, there is a paper by Freeman Dyson where he defined the rank of a partition in an effort to prove combinatorially the partition congruences earlier discovered by Srinivasa Ramanujan. In the article, Dyson made a series of conjectures that were all eventually resolved.Freeman Dyson, Some Guesses in The Theory of Partitions, Eureka (Cambridge), vol. 8 (1944), 10–15.Dyson's rank, crank and adjoint
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External links Eureka at the website of The Archimedeans Archive of old issues