The ancient scholar Hippasus of Metapontum was punished with death for his discovery of irrational numbers—or at least that’s the legend. What actually happened in the fifth century B.C.E. is ...

The symbol pi has only been used in a mathematical sense since the mid-18th century. For those of you who weren't in Greek life in college, π is the Greek symbol for the letter "p." It was taken ...

Pi is the most famous irrational number. People can calculate its value to many decimal places. Here are the first 100 digits of π: 3. ...

Pi is the most famous irrational number. People can calculate its value to many decimal places. Here are the first 100 digits of π: 3. ...

In honor of Pi Day, we did the logical thing and had a journalism major meticulously research some fun facts about 3.14(159265369…).