Every year on March 14, classrooms, universities and research institutions across the world turn their attention to a subject that quietly shapes modern civilisation, mathematics. The date is observed ...

The famous number has many practical uses, mathematicians say, but is it really worth the time and effort to work out its trillions of digits? Swiss researchers have spent 108 days calculating pi to a ...

Every year, on the 14th of March, classes, research centres, and science organisations across the globe come together to mark the importance of a field that influences modern civilisation: mathematics ...