It is not every day that someone makes a room full of bigwigs look, well, dumb. A group of prominent East Bay residents including Congressman Jerry McNerney and Danville Mayor Mike Shimansky were ...

I also created the song 'Pi Song' that was used in the 2022 Pi Song Challenge. In my second year of middle school math class, when I learned that 'a quadratic equation has two roots,' the phrase 'my ...

Math fans, celebrate. Today is Pi Day, a holiday that celebrates the world’s most famous irrational number. What are irrational numbers, you ask? As Penn State Berks professor Joni Queen describes ...

To some of us, the mention of the Greek letter Pi conjures images of lemon merengue, cherry crumb and coconut custard. The more mathematically refined, however, recognize the symbol as the 16th letter ...

Pi has infinitely many digits with no discernible pattern, yet it mathematically explains the shape of all circles. This makes memorizing it a difficult, yet somehow meaningful, challenge.

It may not be marked on most calendars, but if you're a math nerd (or a nerd in general -- of which we count ourselves, obviously), you know what March 14th is. It's 3/14, otherwise known as the first ...