The decimal expansion of pi goes on forever. But an infinite number of fractions can approximate it to ever-increasing accuracy.KuoCheng Liao/Quanta Magazine The deep recesses of the number line are ...
Today is March 14th, or Pi Day because 3.14 is March 14th rendered in month.day date format. A very slightly better way to celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter is July 22nd, ...
The proof resolves a nearly 80-year-old problem known as the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture. In doing so, it provides a final answer to a question that has preoccupied mathematicians since ancient times: ...