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 ...

This March 14, Short Wave is celebrating π... and pie! We do that with the help of mathematician Eugenia Cheng, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the ...

Dear mathematicians, scientists, and pie lovers of the world, your day has arrived! We are officially less than a week away from Pi Day 2024. Whether you like apple pie, pizza pie, math, or all of the ...

On March 14, math classes across the country will celebrate Pi Day—a national holiday in honor of the mathematical constant pi, which represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter ...

BALTIMORE - Pi Day is the most mathematically delicious day of the year. March 14 -- it's 3.14, which celebrates the number used to calculate the circumference of a circle and an excuse to indulge in ...

The first annual Elizabeth S. Meckes Memorial Lecture, “How to Bake Pi: Mathematics Made Tasty,” will be given by Dr. Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) from 12:45–1:45 p.m. on ...

Sure, you can cut a pie into pieces, but what if it’s in four dimensions? Using spectral graph theory, mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem. Graph theory uses nodes and edges (dots and ...

Happy 3.14159 and on and on! Pi Day (3/14) falls on Tuesday this year. But you don’t have to remember that pi represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (we always have to look ...