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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...