Something plus zero remains the same, something times zero becomes zero, and something divided by zero spirals towards the undefined. These simple mathematical truths hide a profound spiritual ...

Around 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

What is the most important number in the entirety of mathematics? Ok, that’s a pretty silly question – out of infinite possibilities, how could you possibly choose? I suppose a big hitter like 2 or 10 ...

In the grand timeline of human civilization, certain discoveries change the course of history fire, the wheel, electricity, and, surprisingly to some, the number zero. Without zero, there would be no ...