While investigating connections between string theory and quantum field theory, researchers Arnab Saha and Aninda Sinha at the Indian Institute of Science stumbled upon a new way to calculate pi. The ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 extraordinary infinite series for 1/π. They were not only efficient but also gave ...

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Nobel laureate in Physics Richard Feynman enjoyed memorizing pi (π). Starting at the 762nd decimal place, the number 9 appears six times in a row. An anecdote tells of how Feynman enjoyed reciting the ...