This is an installment of Reading Reddit, a Slate pop-up blog about Reddit. In the beginning, there was 1. Then, there was 2. Soon after that, there was 3, and 4, and ...

I learned I was an obsessive at a young age. My fourth grade teacher at Cottonwood Elementary School once told us students it was impossible to write 10,000 words without eventually repeating at least ...

The other day, my four-year-old son asked me, point blank: —Dad, can you count to infinity? —No son, you can't, it would take forever. —But what's infinity minus three?" —It's infinity, too. —But how ...

Yitang "Tom" Zhang made an important breakthrough in Number Theory by solving the Twin Prime Conjecture. His work was an important mathematical break-through, and Zhang became an instant celebrity. By ...

The following is an excerpt from Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng Mathematics can be thought of as many things: a language, a tool, a game. It might ...