One of the most important numbers in math might today be named after the Greek letter π or “pi”, but the convention of representing it this way actually doesn’t come from Greece at all. It comes from ...

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 ...

The Internet definitely does not <3 Paul Ingrisano right now. The Brooklyn street artist and craft entrepreneur has enraged aspiring designers and math nuts alike with a seemingly overbearing ...

Pi (π) was known and used ancient times approximated for almost 4000 years. The ancient Babylonians also calculated the area of the circle by taking three times the square of its radius which gave the ...

On March 14, or 3/14, mathematicians and other obscure-holiday aficionados celebrate Pi Day, honoring π, the Greek symbol representing an irrational number that begins with 3.14 Pi, which ...

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 ...

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