Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion! Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating… Read More
Black hole portrait wins Breakthrough Prize for Event Horizon Telescope’s team What’s $3 million divided by 347? That’s the math problem to be solved by the physicists on the Event Horizon… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: Mother’s Day tech events; celebrating Seattle’s creativity; and more – The dilemma of raising kids as a working mother arose when women entered the workforce en masse in the… Read More
Celebrate Pi Day with 31.4 trillion digits from Google (plus a tasty slice of pie) What’s the best way to celebrate Pi Day? That’s the geeky holiday that takes place on 3/14 … in other… Read More
This Pi Day, don’t forget the reason for the season Maybe it’s time to put the pi back in Pi Day. I remember a time when 3/14 really stood for… Read More
Breakthrough Prize program awards $25 million to a dream team of researchers A program that’s richer than the Nobels rewarded more than a dozen researchers tonight with Breakthrough Prize awards amounting to $25.4… Read More
Mathematicians work on the scientific formula for a perfect cup of coffee One coffee drinker’s perfect brew may be another drinker’s battery acid, but mathematicians say they’re zeroing in on the equations… Read More
Four Washington math and science teachers among recipients of Presidential Award for Excellence Four Washington educators are among the 213 mathematics and science teachers named by President Obama Monday as recipients of the Presidential Award… Read More
Powerball math mistake fires up the Internet as $1.4 billion drawing nears The math behind this week’s upcoming $1.4 billion Powerball drawing boggles the mind, but at least a few minds were… Read More
