It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number ...

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that ...

More than 2,000 years ago, a Greek mathematician proved that the surface of the Earth was curved and not flat. That mathematician was Eratosthenes, who was a geographer, poet, astronomer, and music ...

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 ...

Divide the circumference of a baseball by its diameter and you get 3.14. Divide the circumference of Earth by its diameter and you get 3.14. Divide the circumference of a pizza, coin or, well, pie and ...

BALTIMORE -- Long-hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are ready to go on display at Baltimore's Teams of scientists and scholars spent 12 years using a variety of methods, ...

When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

In keeping with her popular previous volumes Stiff and Spook, Bonk shows Mary Roach to be a meticulous researcher with a passion for the details most likely to make you queasy. Roach travels to ...