The following is an excerpt from How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics, by Eugenia Cheng. Listen to SciFri on May 8, 2015, to hear Cheng talk more about practical ...

On March 14 mathematicians everywhere enjoy a slice of pie as they recite the digits of math's most famous constant. Pi, defined as the ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, is ...

Math is all around us: the music you listen to, the vehicles you drive and even the food you bake can all be represented mathematically. But for most kids - and many adults - the word math evokes ...

Sure, you can cut a pie into pieces, but what if it’s in four dimensions? Using spectral graph theory, mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem. Graph theory uses nodes and edges (dots and ...

DECATUR — The last day of the quarter and Pi Day seemed like a good day to throw pie in the faces of a couple of teachers at Eisenhower High School. Pi Day, 3/14, is usually marked at schools to ...