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.[1] 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.
| Editor | Michael Grayling |
|---|---|
| Categories | Mathematical Journal |
| Frequency | sesquiannually |
| Publisher | The Archimedeans |
| First issue | 1939 |
| Company | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | https://www.archim.org.uk/eureka/ |
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, Roger Penrose, W. T. Tutte (writing with friends under the pseudonym Blanche Descartes), popular maths writer Ian Stewart, Fields Medallist Timothy Gowers and Nobel laureate Paul Dirac.
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.[2]
Eureka is edited by students from the university.
| Issue | Publication date | Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Eureka66 | October 2020 | Valentin Hübner |
| Eureka65 | April 2018 | Michael Grayling |
| Eureka64 | April 2016 | Long Tin Chan |
| Eureka63 | September 2014 | Jasper Bird |
| Eureka62 | December 2012 | Jack Williams and Philipp Legner |
| Eureka61 | October 2011 | Philipp Legner and Anja Komatar |
| Eureka60 | November 2010 | Philipp Legner |
| Eureka59 | June 2008 | James West |
| Eureka58 | September 2006 | Shu Kris Chen |
| Eureka57 | May 2005 | Erica Thompson |
| Eureka56 | March 2004 | Vicky Neale |
| Eureka55 | June 2001 | Alan Bain |
| Eureka54 | March 1996 | Alan Bain |
| Eureka53 | February 1994 | Colin Bell |
| Eureka52 | March 1993 | Michael T. Greene |
| Eureka51 | March 1992 | Mark Wainwright |
| Eureka50 | April 1990 | Mark 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.[3][4]