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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of computers across the world are currently scouring the number line in a scavenger hunt for rare mathematical gems. Enthusiasts looking for larger and larger prime numbers, which are ...