In the modern age, an instrument destined for great fortune also took shape: the roulette. The origins are unclear: perhaps ...

You can tell a lot about people and their worldview by how they handle disappointment, especially the results of this past presidential election that saw President-elect Trump defeat Vice ...

This is a quote of Basil Pascal (1625-1662). Pascal was among the brightest of men--a French mathematician, inventor, philosopher and physicist who invented and constructed a calculating device ...

French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier is celebrated for his groundbreaking work in predicting the existence of Neptune through mathematical calculations, a feat that changed the ...