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The Joy of Pi
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The Joy of Pi
I received this book on the 30/03/12, and I excitedly thought 333. I'd been looking forward to it arriving and I had finished two major projects that week, the last I handed in at exactly 3.30pm. So yes I am a bit of a 3 lover. I curled up and read this book from beginning to end and was fascinated at what lengths people had gone to throughout history to understand the formula that has infinite decimal places. But I was longing though for someone to say, but why? Rather than try and outdo each other with the number of decimal places and who could memorise them, and what computers were sophisticated enough to handle the length. I decided at the end of reading the book which unfortunately left me decidedly unfulfilled, that the mystery of "pi" is an unquenchable thirst, a butterfly you try to catch but never can, water through your fingers, the trace of a rare perfume,something that perpetually keeps you wanting, searching, yet never fulfilling. I decided that perhaps the triangle inside the circle is a dove trapped inside a cage and that is what the pi equation means because it is based on the division of the radius (part of a triangle) to the circumfrence of a circle, hence why it must be the antithesis of something much more discoverable and complete, aha the circle itself. A triangle inside a circle is ineloquent at least, mmmmmm and 3.14 is like, sooo unsexy don't you think? But how about 100 divided by 3 and 100 divided by 7? Why haven't these simple equations baffled mathemeticians on a similar scale as pi? An attempt to attach the imperical to the mathematical world. 100 divided by 7 is a repeating circle, 100 divided by 3 is for infinity 33.333333333333 forever, no questioning no wondering what decimal comes next and needing to memorise, and hey it even rhymes, "100 divided by three for infinity," how about that. There can be no mistake that Jesus died at aged 33 at 3.30pm in the afternoon and rose on the third day. I love the number three!! Hey thanks though for the book, the Joy of Pi, (Cool name, colour and cover) got me thinking and I do thank you for that.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2012
I received this book on the 30/03/12, and I excitedly thought 333. I'd been looking forward to it arriving and I had finished two major projects that week, the last I handed in at exactly 3.30pm. So yes I am a bit of a 3 lover. I curled up and read this book from beginning to end and was fascinated at what lengths people had gone to throughout history to understand the formula that has infinite decimal places. But I was longing though for someone to say, but why? Rather than try and outdo each other with the number of decimal places and who could memorise them, and what computers were sophisticated enough to handle the length. I decided at the end of reading the book which unfortunately left me decidedly unfulfilled, that the mystery of "pi" is an unquenchable thirst, a butterfly you try to catch but never can, water through your fingers, the trace of a rare perfume,something that perpetually keeps you wanting, searching, yet never fulfilling. I decided that perhaps the triangle inside the circle is a dove trapped inside a cage and that is what the pi equation means because it is based on the division of the radius (part of a triangle) to the circumfrence of a circle, hence why it must be the antithesis of something much more discoverable and complete, aha the circle itself. A triangle inside a circle is ineloquent at least, mmmmmm and 3.14 is like, sooo unsexy don't you think? But how about 100 divided by 3 and 100 divided by 7? Why haven't these simple equations baffled mathemeticians on a similar scale as pi? An attempt to attach the imperical to the mathematical world. 100 divided by 7 is a repeating circle, 100 divided by 3 is for infinity 33.333333333333 forever, no questioning no wondering what decimal comes next and needing to memorise, and hey it even rhymes, "100 divided by three for infinity," how about that. There can be no mistake that Jesus died at aged 33 at 3.30pm in the afternoon and rose on the third day. I love the number three!! Hey thanks though for the book, the Joy of Pi, (Cool name, colour and cover) got me thinking and I do thank you for that.
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