During last year's Tau Day, theoretical physicist Michael Hartl launched the Tau Manifesto, which explained why pi is confusing and instead should be replaced with tau. One of his reasons ...

U.S. physicist, educator, and entrepreneur Dr Michael Hartl, author of The Tau Manifesto, says Pi is a "confusing and unnatural choice" for the circle constant. "I find it fascinating that the ...

The Tauist argument is laid out in the Tau Manifesto, written in 2010 by theorist Michael Hartl: The definition of a circle is the set of points a particular distance from the center. That ...

If you’re ready for a deep dive on the subject, check out the Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl, or watch him give a lecture at Caltech. (It was delivered on June 28 — a.k.a. Tau Day — in 2011.) ...

author of the Tau Manifesto, told CNN. So who are these math nerds and what's the intellectual underpinning of their movement? A brief review of the key players. Michael John Blake, the meme ...

the author of "The Tau Manifesto" and the "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" (Google Books, 2012), and the founder of education website learnenough.com. [The Most Massive Numbers in Existence] It's not ...

physicist and mathematician and author of "The Tau Manifesto," and Peter Harremoës, a Danish information theorist. In an email, Houston explained their choice: "It looks a bit like pi and is the ...

"The Tau Manifesto project is making use of the ability to one-up pi," Hartl told NBC News. Hartl fully acknowledges that 3/14 and 6/28 are both based on the vagaries of the U.S. tradition for ...

After reading The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl (tauday.com), I took the document’s advice and did a review, looking back through my engineering and physics books. I was dumbfounded at how ...

But the complaints about the competitor to Pi Day, Tau Day, are much more aggressive – and campaigners for the change have made a website and a full manifesto, laying out exactly why the world ...