It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number ...

You might be familiar with the never-ending number π (pi), which is most relevant for studying circles. But you might not know much about the genius guy who first calculated pi: Archimedes of Syracuse ...

Archimedes, as every schoolchild no longer knows, was famous for leaping from his bathtub and running naked through the streets of Syracuse, shouting the name of a Northern California town. "Arcata!