Math fanatics from all around the world and everyone else who just loves ancient Greek pi (or pie) celebrate on March 14.

Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...

WERE this book only for the mathematician it would be no book for me; but it is a great deal more. It is for all who care for the historical aspect of science; it is for all lovers of Greek ...

Pi is part of Egyptian mythology Egyptians believed that the pyramids of Giza were like math marvels, built on the principles ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Math enthusiasts around the world, from college students to rocket scientists, celebrate Pi Day, ...

It wasn’t given its name until 1706, when Welsh mathematician William Jones began using the Greek symbol for the number. Why that letter? It’s the first Greek letter in the words “periphery ...

Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — written as the Greek letter π — appears throughout mathematics, including in areas that are ...

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...

The Greek mathematician Archimedes is considered the first person to accurately approximate Pi in 250 B.C. after he created an algorithm, which is why Pi is sometimes called Archimedes' constant.