This March 14, Short Wave is celebrating π... and pie! We do that with the help of mathematician Eugenia Cheng, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the ...

Happy March 14—time to celebrate everyone’s favorite mathematical constant. Pi, or π, describes the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Since it was first discovered more than 4,000 ...

Sure, you can cut a pie into pieces, but what if it’s in four dimensions? Using spectral graph theory, mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem. Graph theory uses nodes and edges (dots and ...

What do mathematicians and pie fans have in common? A love for March 14. Monday marks Pi Day. For math lovers, it's a chance to celebrate Pi, one of the most important numbers ever, representing the ...

It’s a most auspicious holiday for math lovers. Saturday, March 14, 2015 is Pi Day, a celebration of the irrational number that describes the ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference. Pi is ...