Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

Jonathan Borwein (Jon) receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Often described as “the most beautiful formula in mathematics”, Euler seems never to have actually written it down – ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in ...

Most people first learn about the number π (pi) in school, usually when studying circles. It is often written as 3.14, but this is just an approximation. In reality, pi is an irrational number, ...