Today is National Pi Day, a celebration of that seemingly magical number that helps us determine the area or circumference of a circle — or, perhaps, of a pie. The mathematical constant, 3.14, is ...

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 ...

It comes around every March 14: the day that mathematical-minded smarties celebrate the constant number you get when dividing a circle’s perimeter (or circumference) by its diameter. It turns out that ...

Nahin’s words aren’t lost on those with a penchant for number crunching, who, along with many of us possessing an aversion to algebra, will collectively revel in a slice or two of pie in honor of the ...