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'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically"Even the +, −, =, and x signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"
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Avi Wigderson wins $1 million Turing Award for using randomness to change computer scienceThe 2023 Turing Award has been given to Avi Wigderson . The mathematician found that adding randomness into algorithms made them better at solving nondeterministic problems.
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Pi calculated to 105 trillion digits, smashing world recordA U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million gigabytes of data.
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Can you solve NASA's Pi Day 2024 riddle?Hungry for Pi? Check out NASA's Pi Day challenge and put your wits to the test solving problems just like NASA scientists and engineers.
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12 surprising facts about pi to chew on this Pi DayOn Pi Day (March 14) we celebrate perhaps the most iconic irrational number on Earth. From its ancient origins to the unanswered questions, here are some of the most surprising facts about pi.
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Why NASA uses only 16 of the 105 trillion digits of pi we knowOn Pi Day (March 14), NASA reminded us why we need only a small slice of the irrational number's infinite decimal places to explain most of the known universe.
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World's oldest known decimal point discovered in merchant's notes from 1440s ItalyDecimal points are at least 150 years older than historians thought, according to newly unearthed notes from Venetian merchant Giovanni Bianchini, who practiced astrology in the 1440s.
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How long is a second?The length of a second depends on how you're measuring it.
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Math's 'hairy ball theorem' shows why there's always at least one place on Earth where no wind blowsHere's what the hairiest problem in math can teach us about wind, antennas and nuclear fusion.
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