As you may have noticed, I love numbers. All kinds of numbers. But let me remind you again what I love most about the numbers of baseball. They’re not just numerals on a page. The best numbers tell us ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked to ...

ATLANTA — With a jackpot soaring up to $1.1 billion, millions of lottery players around the country will be anxiously watching the Powerball drawing tonight. Most, if they bought a ticket, will have ...

There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from? Finding out if they are, in fact, constant is the key to ...

In this day and age, phones have undeniably become the main method of communication. It seems like everyone has a cell phone in their pocket, making them capable of chatting with others over social ...

What better time to contemplate the conundrum that is zero than the start of a new year? Zero is a fairly new concept in human history and even more recent as a number. It wasn't until around the 7th ...