When most people hear the name Archimedes, they picture a gaunt figure with a long beard screaming "Eureka!" and running around the streets naked, dripping with bathwater. Whether such a scene ever ...

March 14 is Pi Day in the US, as the date matches the first three digits of the famous number. On Pi Day 2015, Google announced that a researcher had uncovered the first 31 trillion digits of pi, ...

An algorithm to calculate Pi on IBM’s quantum computers honors Pi Day—and helps us understand how a quantum computer works. Ever since Archimedes hit upon a value for Pi in the third century B.C., ...

The trouble with being an incidental witness to the start of something that later becomes world-changing is that at the time you are rarely aware of what you are seeing. Take the Acorn Archimedes, the ...

Fans celebrate Pi Day (3.14) with π pie. Photo by Flickr user pauladamsmith March 14, when written as 3.14, is the first three numbers of pi (π). To commemorate the (completely artificial) confluence ...