In an article in Sunday’s Arts & Society section, the great-niece of Edward Kasner, the mathematician who popularized the term “googol,” misspoke when she said she first heard of Google, the Internet ...

Google may be taken to court over a “googol” by the family of Professor Edward Kasner. Kasner, who invented the word “googol” in the 1930s to describe a very big number, wrote about the concept in a ...

Sergey Brin and Larry Page are relatively new players on the computer-industry playing field. They both come from academic families, and they were both Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University when ...

In the late 1930s, noted mathematician and Columbia University professor Edward Kasner was asked to come up with a name for an extraordinarily large number. While on a walk one day, he asked his ...

CARL BIALIK ON THE WORD LINK BETWEEN A MASSIVE NUMBER AND THE INTERNET. The name of this year's hottest IPO, Google Inc, can be traced back to a walk in the woods just after World War I, when a boy ...

Google has indexed billions of web pages. In fact, according to Statistic Brain – Google had 67,000,000,000 (67 Billion) pages indexed in 2014. But while that’s an impressive number – it still means ...

In a school classroom, mathematician Edward Kasner was talking with some school children about very large numbers. The class came up with a new number, a 1 with a hundred zeros after it. One child, ...