Happy Pi Day!

[Beach Runner]

On 3/14 at 1:59 many people celebrate Π Day. Y'all know I love math. Π is so interesting. It is an irrational (infinite, non-repeating) number. The fact that Π is the number that is obtained by dividing the circumference by the diameter of any circle gave the number great reverential qualities. This was known to ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian and Greek mathematicians. The earliest known approximations date from around 1900 BC, according to Wikipedia.

My favorite fact is that Π equals
4 - 4/3 + 4/5 -4/7 + ...

I also like that MIT sends out their acceptance letters on Π Day (daughter has one).

Last year on Π Day a tornado went through Atlanta and damaged the Georgia Dome during the SEC Tournament. The Westin Hotel's windows have still not been repaired. Now today on Π Day some of the lights in the Georgia Dome went out during the UNC/FSU game in the ACC Tournament, and there was a delay of game. Weird!

 

[DD]

I started to post this this morning. Jsut for you. But, then I got distracted by potato chips. See where my priorities are? Happy PI day, BR!!

 

[Hop]

we celebrated at the montessori school yesterday by talking about the mathematical constant Pi...and then we all had a slice of PIe.

 

[Beach Runner]

we celebrated at the montessori school yesterday by talking about the mathematical constant Pi...and then we all had a slice of PIe.

Good for you! It's great to get students interested in the transcendental mysteries of mathematics.

My absolutely favorite website is about the Golden Ratio Fibonacci Numbers, the Golden section and the Golden String. It gets my students really excited about math.

 

[traderx]

I love math also ergo Pi. And physics. Early on, I was a physics major. Hard to believe yes I know. That came to an abrupt end. I love irrational numbers. I love all things irrational in fact. :shock: I love black holes although they are kinda like Tasmanian Devils: misunderstood.

 

[Beach Runner]

I love math also ergo Pi. And physics. Early on, I was a physics major. Hard to believe yes I know. That came to an abrupt end. I love irrational numbers. I love all things irrational in fact. :shock: I love black holes although they are kinda like Tasmanian Devils: misunderstood.

Yay! Kindred souls!

I never "got" the underlying concepts in physics. My prof at Tulane was horrible. The only reason I made an A is because I am good at math and because I was tutored by my cousin's ex-boyfriend who was a graduate from Georgia Tech in engineering and a law student at Tulane. Also, it was kind of hard to focus in lab when it was on Friday afternoons across the street from the SAE house, and they were drinking beer and yelling for me to leave lab and party with them.

Currently I am on a mid-tenure committee and did a scheduled classroom visit for a physics prof yesterday who is having his mid-tenure review this spring. I wish that my prof had explained physics to me the way that this professor did.

 

[Lynnie]

Happy PI day, Girl~~~~~~~~

I love math, too~~~~~actually, think it's funn! Enjoy your day!!

Cheers~~~~~~~~~

 

[Beach Runner]

Happy PI day, Girl~~~~~~~~

I love math, too~~~~~actually, iit's funn! Enjoy your day!!

Cheers~~~~~~~~~

So are you in the ATL today? From what it says on The Weather Channel, it doesn't appear that the weather was bad enough to interrupt electrical service at The Dome.

Of course, I was at a computer nerd meeting last weekend, and even though they had set up a router for every conference room, they didn't anticipate the load on the ISP from all of the nerds (moi included) in attendance. I started wardriving to get a signal. It was okay at the hotel.

So maybe the folks at The Dome didn't anticipate whatever it took to provide lighting to all of the games today? If it happens now or later, they are in trouble. It's a rainy night in Georgia.

 

[Lynnie]

In Atlanta all day - lounging all day - decadent, even!! Maybe PI day is more like the Bermuda Triangle when it comes to electical dome thingies......

That's Lynnie's Scientific Explanation! ;-)

 

[Beach Runner]

In Atlanta all day - lounging all day - decadent, even!! Maybe PI day is more like the Bermuda Triangle when it comes to electical dome thingies......

That's Lynnie's Scientific Explanation! ;-)

I'll ask daughter's fianc?. He's the science guy. Maybe he'll have some rational explanation for all of this.