In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his lightning-fast formulas for π in a notebook, physicists are finding that the same strange patterns help describe black holes and the fabric ...

For more than a century, Srinivasa Ramanujan’s uncanny formulas for the number pi have looked like pure mathematical fireworks, dazzling but detached from the physical world. Now a new wave of ...

Image made with elements from Canva. It’s March 14, or Pi Day, that day of the year where we celebrate the ratio that makes a circle a circle. The Greek letter that represents it is such a part of our ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Every March 14, mathematicians, scientists and math lovers around the world celebrate Pi Day, a commemoration of the mathematical sign Pi. That's because the date written numerically ...