In the late 1930s, noted mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was asked to come up with a name for an extraordinarily large number. While on a walk one day, he asked his ...

In an article in Sunday’s Arts & Society section, the great-niece of Edward Kasner, the mathematician who popularized the term “googol,” misspoke when she said she first heard of Google, the Internet ...

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 ...

In Friday’s Google Doodle, Google celebrates its own 21 st birthday. Google is old enough to drink, but what is a “google”, anyway? Its namesake, a “googol ...