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 ...

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 ...

In honor of Pi Day, Matt Parker tries to test how accurately we can calculate pi not with rulers, but rather by lining hundreds of actual miniature pies around a chalk circle and in the middle to get ...

Here's a funny story. A reporter at National Geographic wanted to find someone to interview about pi—that number you learned in grade school that is the ratio between a circle's circumference and its ...

Physicists are now using principles from quantum mechanics to build a new model of the abstract concept of pi. Or, more ...

Happy 3.14159 and on and on! Pi Day (3/14) falls on Tuesday this year. But you don’t have to remember that pi represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (we always have to look ...