Every year on March 14, classrooms, universities and research institutions across the world turn their attention to a subject that quietly shapes modern civilisation, mathematics. The date is observed ...

Possibly not everyone knows that March 14th is Pi Day, in honor of the symbol used to denote the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is commonly approximated as 3.14, but it ...

The first annual Elizabeth S. Meckes Memorial Lecture, “How to Bake Pi: Mathematics Made Tasty,” will be given by Dr. Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) from 12:45–1:45 p.m. on ...

Math is all around us: the music you listen to, the vehicles you drive and even the food you bake can all be represented mathematically. But for most kids - and many adults - the word math evokes ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --A contest to name the most numbers in pi kicked off the annual Minnesota State High School Mathematics League tournament on Monday, which was also National Pi Day. The top high ...

The Mathematics Department kicked off Pi Day in the Talmage Building with a pi recitation contest and a visit from Cosmo. The event had apple pies and a variety of games including Plinko and cornhole.

Mathematician Carlos Castillo-Chavez says that pi is so important to math that using its simple, geometric definition denies its greater powers. "[Pi] brings you into the world of mathematics, which ...

We bring you this story in case you want to get baking. That's because Saturday is Pi Day — but it's not just any pi day. It's March 14* of the year '15, or 3-14-15 — the first five digits of the ...