When Isaac Newton computed pi to 15 decimal places in the 17th century, he wrote, “I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time.” We ...
The decades have been good to Pi. Its happy swirl of Jewish mysticism, meaning-of-everything conspiracism, and Math’s Greatest Hits (along with pi, it bangs through the Fibonnaci sequence, the golden ...