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Review of PI–A Biography of the World’s Most Mysterious Number by Alfred S. Posamentier “Can I read that when you’ve finished?” my husband asked, after circling around me in my recliner as I read this book this past weekend. Normally, my book reviewing assignments don’t interest him in the slightest. This was obviously different. Perhaps it was only to be expected, as my husband had been on the Stuyvesant High School math team, and read math teaser and games volumes with the same enjoyment that most of us reserve for summer beach books. If there is anything that adults remember from their earliest studies of mathematics in school, it is the Greek letter Pi (p) used in connection with the famous formula for the area of a circle- pr². However, what most people don’t know is that this ubiquitous number has an extraordinary significance in mathematics and a very interesting history about how it was discovered as well as its value more accurately known
Life of Pi2001 novel by Yann Martel This article is about the novel by Yann Martel. For the film adaptation, see Life of Pi (film). For the theatrical adaptation, see Life of Pi (play). Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, India, who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. After a shipwreck, he survives 227 days while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger peculiarly named Richard Parker and an orangutan named Orange Juice along with several other zoo animals, raising questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told. The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide.[1] It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses[2] before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. Martel won the Man Booker Prize the following year.[3][4][5] It was also chosen for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 20
Meet Archimedes of Syracuse: The Mathematician Who Discovered Pi and Designed War MachinesIt’s the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Thursday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number representing the constant ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi is essential to engineering and modern construction. Although many sought to find it, the calculation of pi, which is also expressed by the fraction 22/7, is commonly credited to Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse more than 2,200 years ago. According to History.com, physicist Larry Shaw founded Pi Day day in 1988, selecting March 14 because the numeric date represents the first three digits of pi (3.14). It also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday. The first Pi Day took place at the Exploratorium, a San Francisco–based science museum, and featured a circular parade and fruit pies. The latter has become a delicious tradition among academic and office settings. In 2009, the U.S. House of Represe Copyright ©vanflat.pages.dev 2025 |