On July 13, 1944, in a modest Boston boarding house, William James Sidis was found unconscious. He had suffered a massive ...

His two early papers “What Numbers Could Not Be” (1965) and “Mathematical Truth” (1973) — the latter of which came to be called “the Benacerraf problem" — became instant classics and are discussed to ...

People who make a habit of sleeping on the job comprise a secret society of sorts within the U.S. labor force. Inspired by ...