A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his lightning-fast formulas for π in a notebook, physicists are ...

For the 30th anniversary of Pi Day, Google went there. It made a Pi-themed Google Doodle out of, yep you guess it, pie ingredients. Hilarious. SEE ALSO: Virginia Woolf gets a Google Doodle of her own ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

There’s a formula for pi, so why not for pie (pizza pie)? Pizza–of which the round kind has an area of pi times radius squared–is among the world’s most beloved foods. Yet what constitutes pizza ...

Math teacher Marcus Hung squinted in mock concentration. "3.1415," he said before pausing dramatically and then smiling. "That's about it." Reciting the digits of the irrational number pi is not his ...

It might just be the sweetest job in the world. Lynn Berbatiotis is a professional mince pie taster. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT The 35-year-old spends her days touring the country in search ...