Though it began just this year, the Pi Network already has more than 500,000 users, and it aims to be accessible to everyone with a smartphone. Nicolas Kokkalis Ph.D. ’13, Chengdiao Fan Ph.D. ’14, ...

In winter, it’s important to ventilate living and working spaces regularly. Here’s how to make a homemade measuring station ...

Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan—who tragically died in 1920 at the age of 32—was one of the greatest minds in ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

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Calling all the mathematicians and aspiring math wizards! Nothing is more fun for you than a good ol’ math joke, pun or math pickup line. So when Pi Day comes on March 14, we’re helping you prepare to ...

Pi, a mathematical constant denoted by the Greek letter π, is the ratio of a circle's circumference C to its diameter d: π = C/d. The circumference of a circle is, in turn, equal to 2πr, where r is ...

Through its mobile mining app, trust-based security system and growing ecosystem of applications, Pi aims to bring crypto to everyday users without the barriers of expensive hardware or high energy ...