Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

One of the oldest calculus problems, finding the area of a circle, can be visualized using a pizza. By dividing it up into ever smaller slices and laying them out next to one another, eventually you ...

Math may not have been your favorite subject in school, but like it or not it’s a part of just about every home improvement project. You might be trying to figure out how many square feet are in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Never use more dimensions in your figure than there are variables in the data ...

The radius of a circle or a sphere is the distance between the center and the edge. The radius can be used to calculate a circle's diameter, area and circumference. Likewise, a sphere's volume is ...

Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized. Around 450 BCE, Anaxagoras of ...

Everybody knows the value of pi is 3.14…er, something, but how many people know where the ratio came from? Actually, the ratio came from nature—it’s the ratio between the circumference of a circle and ...

How to safely reopen offices, schools and other public spaces while keeping people six feet apart comes down to a question mathematicians have been studying for centuries. Sphere packing might seem ...