For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Some Canadians are outraged by the performance of "O, Canada" at Game 5 of the 2025 World Series on Wednesday night. Both the U.S. and the Canadian national anthems were performed prior to Wednesday ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

What is your favorite number? For many people, it may be an irrational number such as pi (π), Euler's number (e) or the square root of 2. Even among the natural numbers (positive integers), there are ...