Here’s a sweet surprise for math and astronomy lovers alike — there’s a newly discovered planet with a serendipitous tie to the mathematical constant pi. The planet, scientifically known as ...

As Saha and Sinha discovered more than 600 years later, Madhava’s formula is only a special case of a much more general equation for calculating pi. In their work, the string theorists ...

Math enthusiasts around the world, from school kids to rocket scientists, are celebrating Pi Day today, March 14 – or 3/14, also the first three digits of an infinite number with many practical ...

This problem was discovered in the 18th century by French mathematician Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. In 1897, Indiana state legislators tried passing a Pi Bill that legally defined pi ...

The number has an almost mystical property that has led mathematicians down rabbit holes trying to find more digits of pi and also discovering ways in which it intersects with the rest of mathematics.