Today is Pi Day, but you should stop celebrating it and instead use tau as your circle constant. Tau Day — the true holiday — is celebrated on June 28th.

The constant math problem: How do students learn best? ... • Student-centered math-- Student A says that if there are 12 Christmas trees and five are cut down, seven are left standing.

In math, he says, pi pops up in the most unexpected places. "Pi, with its infinite number of digits, is an introduction to the kinds of mathematics that we do, which often involve the study of ...

Euler’s constant explains so much about math and physics. We delve into the number e, or Euler’s number, to find out why it’s so special.

The proof that the Apéry constant is irrational remains one of the most bizarre events in the history of mathematics. Skip to main content. Scientific American.

Pi Day memes: See more than 3.14 jokes about math's most irrational constant. Published: Mar. 14, 2016, 4:34 p.m. By . Joe Noga, cleveland.com; Math enthusiasts celebrate March 14 as Pi Day.

As a physics reporter and lover of mathematics, I won’t be celebrating Pi Day this year. That’s because pi is wrong. I don’t mean that the value is incorrect. Pi, known by the symbol π, is ...