The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner ...

But there’s also another version of the Archimedes story — one that speaks more directly to the uniquely American journey of Bryan H. Bunch that began in Great Depression-ravaged St. Louis on Dec. 19, ...

Originally defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, pi — written as the Greek letter π — appears throughout mathematics, including in areas that are ...

Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number representing the constant ratio of a circle’s circumference to its ...

Acclaimed Chinese-American mathematician Huaxin Lin has returned to China for a full-time research position in Shanghai after nearly four decades in the United States. The 69-year-old joined the ...

It will sound very much like computer science: The “DE” here abbreviates Diophantine equation, named after the Greek mathematician Diophantine, who lived in the third century C.E. The key ...