While investigating how string theory can be used to explain certain physical phenomena, scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have stumbled upon on a new series representation for the ...

Would anyone like a slice of my π pie? Tarehna Wicker, CC BY-NC-SA Math students everywhere will be eating pies in class this week in celebration of what is known as Pi Day, the 14th day of the 3rd ...

Let’s pay our homage to π on Pi day which is celebrated around the world today on March 14 (3/14). To the uninitiated, that is π with two significant digits! It also happens to be the greatest ...

Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories. On March 14, or 3/14, mathematicians and other obscure-holiday aficionados celebrate Pi Day, honoring π, the Greek symbol representing an ...

On π-day, one mathematician explores our fascination with pi and asks why we obsessively compute its digits. Pi Day, the International Day of Mathematics, is celebrated on 14 March, due to the date's ...

Not every mathematical constant gets its own day. But then again, not every constant is pi, the incredible and infinite number represented by this symbol: π. Pi Day was introduced in 1988 in San ...

Oh dear—π day 2016 has gone by and I still haven’t memorized p in what I used to call the ‘‘elementary’’ way that I invented some decades ago. Somebody recently suggested the much better name ...

Math students everywhere will be eating pies in class this week in celebration of what is known as Pi Day, the 14th day of the 3rd month. The symbol π (pronounced paɪ in English) is the sixteenth ...