Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
A team of Swiss researchers are claiming that their high-performance computer has added 12.8 trillion new digits to the number Pi, in a calculation that reached a record-breaking 62.8 trillion figures ...
In a 1992 piece called “The Mountains of Pi,” Richard Preston profiled two math geniuses named Gregory and David Chudnovsky. The Chudnovsky brothers had built their own supercomputer in their Upper ...