Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Throughout history, circles have symbolized many things: unity, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information This lively journal is produced five times per year and includes contributions from mathematics practitioners. It reflects the best ...

The radius of a circle or a sphere is the distance between the center and the edge. The radius can be used to calculate a circle's diameter, area and circumference. Likewise, a sphere's volume is ...

SOQUEL >> When Gabriela Rivas talks about finding the circumference of a circle, she relates it the mathematical problem to a tangible part of life. “Like you try to find the circumference of ...

I'm kind of confused by your question. Do you want a circle with a circumference of 1px or a circle with a 1px border?<BR><BR>The former sounds difficult, but for the latter, you can use the ...

Time is a flat circle, Matthew McConaughey tells us, neglecting to explain how then we could measure time's circumference to derive its diameter, using pi. (Maybe it's best not to take the sentiment ...

You’re likely familiar with Pi Day, perhaps the most popular of geeky holidays. Hooray. But I’m here to tell you that Pi Day is wrong — or rather, the entire idea of pi as a mathematical concept is ...