Any point P with coordinates (\(x,~y\)) on the circumference of a circle can be joined to the centre (0, 0) by a straight line that forms the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle with sides of length ...

Using high school algebra and geometry, and knowing just one rational point on a circle or elliptic curve, we can locate infinitely many others. You’re sitting at the end of a long conference table, ...

You’re likely familiar with Pi Day, perhaps the most popular of geeky holidays. Hooray. But I’m here to tell you that Pi Day is wrong — or rather, the entire idea of pi as a mathematical concept is ...