This dispute is just one of many such little-known events; for example, another debate has been raging for centuries over who invented the symbol for zero, 0. In The Language of Mathematics ...

Anyone who's had to learn math or physics in school may have encountered pi at one point. More popularly known and written out in its Greek lowercase letter counterpart, π, it's essentially the ...

EVERYONE who has had to correct printers' proofs of mathematical formulæ must be painfully alive to the pitfalls into which the non-mathematical compositor continually blunders. To such as know ...

Going back to the holiday's roots, the mathematical symbol Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The value of Pi is approximately 3.14, but it has infinite decimal ...

or a string of mixed symbols like a password. Each of those categories is referred to as a “type,” and that type is stored along with the value of the variable. If you try to do a math ...