Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. Mathematician John Allen Paulos seems to be the nation’s town crier ...

The following is an excerpt from Thinking in Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math, by Daniel Tammet, out now from Little, Brown. Ask an Icelander what comes after three and he will answer, “Three ...

Microsoft Excel is capable of counting the number of cells that contain numbers, so if there was a time when you chose to manually count cells, then such days are over. That is because it is possible ...