In his head, Dan Knights is thinking "Russia overhears a Bostonian rebel marmoset rashly reply heavily." But he's saying: "468440901224953430146549585. " Knights, a University of Minnesota professor, ...

It is not every day that someone makes a room full of bigwigs look, well, dumb. A group of prominent East Bay residents including Congressman Jerry McNerney and Danville Mayor Mike Shimansky were ...

Foer’s book questions whether Tammet has used mnemonic methods to memorize digits of pi and other information, just like everyone else without synesthesia. But Julian Asher at the Autism Research ...

March 14th is “Pi Day,” a faux-holiday that is regrettably celebrated not with delicious fresh-baked pastries, but with feats of mental endurance. I speak, of course, of piphilology — the ancient and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Israeli theoretical physicist Yehuda Ashkelon set a new Israeli record in memorizing the mathematical constant Pi (π), recalling and reciting 25,333 decimal places. Ashkelon, a Ben-Gurion University ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – National Pi Day is Tuesday, March 14, and two students from Holy Family Catholic Academy were able to memorize and write all 200 digits of the mathematical constant. Liliana Hunter ...

This story originally ran in 2016 but it running again today in honor of Pi Day. It started out as a typical Monday: a disgruntled haze of snooze buttons and mismatched socks, so when I walked into my ...

For numerology enthusiasts, or anyone superstitious about dates, this is a pretty crazy week. Not only is Friday the 13 th, Saturday is also “Pi Day,” an annual recognition that March 14 is ...

In Daniel Tammet’s mind, three is a dotted green crescent moon shape, one is a sort of white sunburst and four is a blue boomerang. Every number has a distinct color and shape, making the number pi, ...