If you have read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver—the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (2003)—you will remember the smell of the age he recreates: Wet ink, gossip, gunpowder, and the new arrogance of ...
The mathematical calculation is honored every March 14.
Some numbers are useful. Some are famous. And then there is pi, a number so absurdly powerful that humanity has spent ...