Saturday, March 5, 2011

Pi Day




Mathematicians who were born or died on 14th March


Vilhelm Frimann Koren Bjerknes

József Kürschák

Albert Einstein

Waclaw Sierpinski
Since Sierpinski (ala Sierpinski triangle) was born on Pi day we should make a Sierpinski pie. Here's the recipe

Oscar Chisini

Nora Isobel Calderwood


Translations of pi


Ludolph van Ceulen spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π

After his death the "Ludolphine number", 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...,
was engraved on his tombstone

The tombstone of Ludolph van Ceulen


Ludolph van Ceulen and Pi


50 Interesting Facts About Pi


The distinguished mathematician Irving Kaplansky is also a fine musician, whose daughter Lucy is an accomplished folk singer. In Feb. 1973, Kaplansky composed a popular "A Song about Pi"






How many different ways to express pi ? Well here are 59 for a starter




What Pi sounds like





Ramanujan proved the following formula:
http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/RamanujansFormulaForPi.html


Pi and the Fibonacci Numbers



Anti-Pi




The Tau Manifesto


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