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

DO you have a preference for odd or even numbers? Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, does: “I really like even numbers, and I like heavily divisible numbers,” she says in the latest Vogue. “Twelve is my ...

The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

Three and five are prime numbers - that is, they are divisible only by one and by themselves. So are five and seven. And 11 and 13. And for each of these pairs of prime numbers, the difference is two.

Daniel Tammet's other books include Born on a Blue Day and Embracing the Wide Sky. There are numbers all around us. They are in every word we speak or write, and in the passage of time. Everything in ...

There are numbers all around us. They are in every word we speak or write, and in the passage of time. Everything in our world has a numeric foundation, but most of us don't see those numbers. It's ...

Joseph Moxon, author of 'Mathematicks Made Easie,' was born on this day in 1627. Joseph Moxon, by Frederick Hendrik van Hove - NPG D30334 Joseph Moxon by Frederick ...

This journal, begun in 1943 as Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, publishes original articles on all aspects of numerical mathematics, book reviews, mathematical tables, and technical ...