Dr. Greene tells the meeting story at the start of Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press) not to evoke some dark conspiracy.

The law of large numbers describes how the results of an experiment will get closer to the expected value if a person repeats it a significant number of times and calculates an average. It bears some ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...