Much like gold, silver has been making headlines for all the right reasons recently. The precious metal has experienced one of its most dramatic bull runs in history this year, climbing by over 150% ...

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 ...

IISc physicists discovered that Ramanujan’s classic π-formulas arise naturally in modern theories describing critical phenomena and black holes. The connection suggests his early mathematics may have ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote down a set of formulas to calculate the ...

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Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

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Cutting corners: Raspberry Pi has introduced a new variant of its popular Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer with 1GB of memory. The board comes at a premium price of $45, and you can blame the ...

Pictured is the University of Houston campus. A week after the University of Houston's Pi Kappa Phi chapter was closed amid allegations of hazing, a prospective fraternity member filed a $10 million ...

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While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...