{"id":233371,"date":"2026-03-16T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mathematicians-find-one-pi-formula-to-rule-them-all"},"modified":"2026-03-16T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:03:00","slug":"mathematicians-find-one-pi-formula-to-rule-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mathematicians-find-one-pi-formula-to-rule-them-all","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians find one pi formula to rule them all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uk04gfIt8yM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach equation [for calculating \u03c0 ] seemed unrelated to the others. But in late 2025, a team of seven AI researchers at the Technion\u2013Israel Institute of Technology found a previously unknown mathematical structure underlying hundreds of pi formulas, including those of Archimedes, Euler and Ramanujan. \u201cIt\u2019s not every day that you get to cite Archimedes,\u201d says Ph.D. student Michael Shalyt, part of the team. The structure, called a conservative matrix field, or CMF, acts as a kind of mathematical common ancestor, showing how formulas that look nothing alike turn out to be different expressions of the same underlying object.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A mixture of AI and algorithms uncovered a hidden structure spanning 2,000 years of equations for pi.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/lyndie-chiou\/\">Lyndie Chiou<\/a> edited by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/clara-moskowitz\/\">Clara Moskowitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article: \u201cEach equation [for calculating \u03c0 ] seemed unrelated to the others. But in late 2025, a team of seven AI researchers at the Technion\u2013Israel Institute of Technology found a previously unknown mathematical structure underlying hundreds of pi formulas, including those of Archimedes, Euler and Ramanujan. \u201cIt\u2019s not every day that you get [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}