SAN FRANCISCO -- Every March 14, mathematicians, scientists and math lovers around the world celebrate Pi Day, a commemoration of the mathematical sign Pi. That's because the date written numerically ...

On March 14, the nerdier side of humanity celebrates Pi Day, a holiday that “commemorates the irrational, transcendent, and never-ending ratio that helps describe circles of all sizes.” Pi is the ...

Time is a flat circle, Matthew McConaughey tells us, neglecting to explain how then we could measure time's circumference to derive its diameter, using pi. (Maybe it's best not to take the sentiment ...

What if we woke up one day and Pi wasn’t 3.14159 anymore? On March 14, the world celebrates Pi Day, honoring this essential ...

Most of us can recall Pi to four or five digits, thanks to high school math, but now a team of Swiss scientists has broken the world record for calculating the mathematical constant. It took three and ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. It’s March 14 – Pi Day as the date format used in the US and only a handful of ...

Anyone who's had to learn math or physics in school may have encountered pi at one point. More popularly known and written out in its Greek lowercase letter counterpart, π, it's essentially the ratio ...