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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

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 ...