Computers are working to solve an age-old geometry problem. Humans can’t “square the circle” by hand, which was proven in the 1800s. Computer solutions involve infinity, complexity, and some ...

THE subject-matter of this work has at different times been brought under the notice of the readers of NATURE, for it is very little more than a collected and corrected reproduction of papers which ...

March 14 — a day you’re more likely than most others to eat — or throw — a pie and get a reduced price on your pizza. It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic ...