You might know that a googol—the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes—is a very large number indeed. You might even know that a googolplex—a 1 followed by a googol of zeros—is an even bigger number. But ...

Mathematician Edward Kasner, 59, of Columbia University, is one of the mythical baker’s dozen of savants who were supposed to be the only men in the world able to understand the Einstein theory of ...

Google is the world’s most used search engine and is likely a website you visit multiple times a day. However, what many don’t know is that behind the name lies a fascinating meaning. After all, when ...

CARL BIALIK ON THE WORD LINK BETWEEN A MASSIVE NUMBER AND THE INTERNET. The name of this year's hottest IPO, Google Inc, can be traced back to a walk in the woods just after World War I, when a boy ...