The decades have been good to Pi. Its happy swirl of Jewish mysticism, meaning-of-everything conspiracism, and Math’s Greatest Hits (along with pi, it bangs through the Fibonnaci sequence, the golden ...

Purdue University mathematics professor Clarence Waldo was only at the Indiana Statehouse to lobby for the school during budget talks in February of 1897. That’s when he happened to witness House Bill ...

Last week at around 2 a.m., multidisciplinary artist John C. Sims was awoken by the sound of intruders storming his home. Sims quickly grabbed his phone to call 911, jumping into the bathroom of his ...

While this mathematical constant never repeats itself, Pi Day comes full circle once a year on March 14. Also marking Albert Einstein’s birthday, Pi Day is the day that gives every math lover an ...

Happy Tau Day, everyone! Every June 28, a rogue fleet of math nerds makes its case for the abolition of arguably the most important irrational number in the world: pi. These men and women of the "tau" ...