LESS can be more in maths, at least when it comes to its history. With a topic that is liable to die in the reader’s hands before they’ve even reached the ancient Babylonians, David Berlinski has ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. He has two. The first is structural. While the narrative of Infinite Ascent proceeds more or less chronologically ...

No one knows for sure when mathematics went from being a functional system for keeping track of sheep to a philosophical system that transcended the objects it counted, but as well-known science ...