The story of Pi Take any circle, measure its circumference and its diameter. The ratio of these two numbers is a mathematical constant we call pi. while this definition is simple pi has been studied for thousands of years and History of our understanding not just of the value of pi. But also, what it means forms a history of all of mathematics it takes us from the Middle East to Europe to China to India and even America. It's a history, which involves revolutions murder and the infinite. Math is as old as civilization older even. There's evidence of counting going back thirty thousand years and two of the very earliest civilizations the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians both investigated pi around 4000 years ago the Babylonians estimated PI to be 3 and 1/8. Remember that the first few digits of pi are 3.1415926. There are more, that means that the Babylonian estimate of Pi is accurate to 1% of its true value. Which is kind of astonishing when you remember that thi...
“Its 12:26 am, the lights are mostly out, night has acquired its jazz mood. Its late October, winter is knocking hard, chills blow the curtains as I sit under this shady, not-so-bright light on my desk putting my overcoat on the back of my chair as I am in a restaurant. Too cold, too vintage depicting the very mood of my life right now just right with right number of classics and right amount of wine. A lot of rights there hiding the very wrong in them. I doubt my life is going to be the same merry as before. Though with full optimism in heart I hope for the obverse. I feel like a Human female witnessing my own menstrual cycle, i.e., I feel like a teen girl on periods though I might have no idea what that actually feels like. I wanted it to go like that, little scientific with a blend of cool and all modernized-ish. With no one to talk and a lot to absorb, I sit down in anguish and little conviction to write. As writing has been a great escape and my little way process it ...