Dahlen is Professor at Stockholm School of Economics and Thorbjørnsen is Professor at Norwegian School of Economics. Together, they’ve written the book More Numbers Every Day How many numbers have ...

As an undergraduate at the University of Chile, Bernardo Subercaseaux took a dim view of using computers to do math. It seemed antithetical to real intellectual discovery. “There’s some instinct or ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...