Eureka (University of Cambridge magazine)


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 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 65 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, 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.
Eureka is edited by students from the University.
IssuePublication dateEditor
Eureka 65April 2018Michael Grayling
Eureka 64April 2016Long Tin Chan
Eureka 63September 2014Jasper Bird
Eureka 62December 2012Jack Williams and Philipp Legner
Eureka 61October 2011Philipp Legner and Anja Komatar
Eureka 60November 2010Philipp Legner
Eureka 59June 2008James West
Eureka 58September 2006Shu Kris Chen
Eureka 57May 2005Erica Thompson
Eureka 56March 2004Vicky Neale
Eureka 55June 2001Alan Bain
Eureka 54March 1996Alan Bain
Eureka 53February 1994Colin Bell
Eureka 52March 1993Michael T. Greene
Eureka 51March 1992Mark Wainwright
Eureka 50April 1990Mark Wainwright

Of the notable mathematical articles, there is an influential 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.