The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is far from ...

Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — written as the Greek letter π — appears throughout mathematics, including in areas that are completely ...

In the early 1970s mathematician Donald Knuth spent a sabbatical with his wife in Norway. The time was meant to be spent relaxing. Yet one night he woke up his partner in a state of agitation. He ...

You don't need to be a master mathematician to know that numbers hold special meanings—both personal and cultural. Maybe you wore your lucky number seven on every soccer jersey, or perhaps you painted ...

Have you ever gone through a period of time where you saw the same number everywhere? Perhaps your morning coffee costs $3.33, and so does a gallon of gas when you fill up your car. Maybe then you log ...

Numerologist Josh Siegel first became interested in life path numbers over 25 years ago at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in West Hollywood, California. Three decades later, now everyone seems to be ...