Possibly not everyone knows that March 14th is Pi Day, in honor of the symbol used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is commonly approximated as 3.14, but it ...

The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity. By Steven Strogatz This article, ...

The proof resolves a nearly 80-year-old problem known as the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture. In doing so, it provides a final answer to a question that has preoccupied mathematicians since ancient times: ...

READY for the countdown. One, two, three, 3.14. March 14 is Pi Day, a date celebrated by those with a love of numbers or an incredible desire to calculate the circumference of a circle. Why is it ...

If robots do take over one day, humans may be obliged to celebrate all sorts of holidays dedicated to mathematical constants that interest our AI overlords. For now we mark only a few such days, ...

Monday is Pi Day -- in the U.S., at least. People in Europe might find it strange that March 14 would be the designated day to celebrate a ratio cherished by mathematicians and circle lovers around ...

To most, pi is just some number: 3.1415926 … streaming on into infinity, a seemingly endless string of digits. Not so for writer/director Darren Aronofsky, whose debut film, Pi, deals briefly with pi ...