You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. There are infinitely many numbers, and infinitely many ways to combine and manipulate those numbers.

In 1949, Dattatreya Ramachandra Kaprekar found a number that, after a simple game of sorting and subtracting, always ends up appearing. The story of a discovery that fascinates mathematicians and ...

At the playground on the leafy campus of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, one afternoon in May, the mathematician Akshay Venkatesh alternated between pushing his 4-year-old ...

The discoveries of certain constant numbers have pushed the world forward as much as the the light bulb or the assembly line. These constants have led to bridges being built, finances being accounted ...

Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon. Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial ...