Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines how an ancient scholar’s mathematical discovery pioneered our modern zero.

It might seem unfathomable to us living today, but 179 years ago on this very date, our galaxy, The Milky Way, actually grew by one planet. Okay, okay, we know, that that is not what actually happened ...

A new kind of infinity appears to break the rules of how extremely large numbers behave, and could redraw the way the mathematical universe is ordered. It may come as a surprise, but mathematicians ...