The latest record-breaking calculation of pi did not come from a sprawling cloud cluster but from a single, meticulously tuned server that pushed the constant to 314 trillion digits. The feat ...

The celebration of March 14 began as a weird Bay Area tradition. By Soumya Karlamangla Children in math classes across America will soon be discussing the magic of a circle’s circumference and, ...

For more than a century, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s uncanny formulas for the number pi have looked like pure mathematical ...