Melvil Dewey is the 19th century librarian who looked at the chaotic state of library shelves and said, essentially, ...

When the Clay Mathematics Institute put individual $1-million prize bounties on seven unsolved mathematical problems, they may have undervalued one entry—by a lot. If mathematicians were to resolve, ...

A move to a more universal numbering system would also be extremely difficult with the current computer systems in place, according to Jack. "We'd have to end every single course in the main frame and ...