Yes, today is NOT Pi Day – well, not officially. After all, every day is Pi Day since every day Pi is being used to solve both simple and complex problems, many times without anyone realizing it. Yes, Pi might just have to be the most exciting irrational number on the planet! What do we mean […]
This post asks an interesting question. So, as a high school student, I go to the trouble (and it would be some trouble) to learn the value of Pi to 1000 decimal places. Will that make me a better mathematician? NO, according to recent research on how we learn. Check out this article on this […]
Yes, we were ahead of our lagging mathematicians in other classrooms today – with an early Pi DAY. March 14 (3.14) is a day ahead of our American counterparts and staff were delighted to receive small jam and lemon tarts to celebrate this auspicious day in the Mathematics calendar! Would love to see photos from […]
The artist Louisa Bufardeci has long been fascinated by the rich resources of scientific theory. String theory is an area of Physics that aims to describe all the parts of the universe, and how they behave, in one master mathematical equation. It has led physicists to suggest that the smallest element of matter, from which […]
Yes, we are again (see the last Pi Post) heading towards Pi Day (March 14 or 3/14 in the USA). Of course, in Australia and New Zealand we are able to celebrate a day earlier (on 14/03) than our North American mathematicians! We wonder whether Google will produce a unique Pi Day logo?
Life of Pi is a movie by Ang Lee about the stories of a boy, Piscine, who suffered verbal abuse in school because his name was often taken to be “Pissing”. To move beyond this, he makes a huge effort to become known as Pi by going up to the blackboard in every class he attends […]
The sonnet “Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler’s Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.” Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin wrote these words about this equation in a 2002 […]
Daniel Tammet was bullied at school and also suffers from autism, etc. Yet, he has been gifted with an amazing ability to manipulate numbers. Check out this video link for an insight into Daniel’s rather different way of thinking mathematically.
