Directory of Pi Resources

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Pi = 3.1415926535... An irrational number, a never ending yet never repeating decimal, Pi has been calculated and explored throughout history from the ancient times to the present.

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• Calculation
• Digits
• Pi - The Movie
• Poetry

Resources in This Category

• A Common Book of Pi

  http://personal.bgsu.edu/~carother/pi/Pi1.html
  Includes a brief history, a page with different formulas and a list of references.

• A Slice of Pi Home Page

  http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/welcome.html
  Features an historic overview of the discovery and estimate methods of pi. formula expressions, and the first 100,000 digits. Some pages use a Geometer's Sketchpad program.

• A Tribute to Pi

  http://www.acc.umu.se/~olletg/pi/trib.htm
  Club and information.

• Ask Dr. Math - Pi

  http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/mid_pi.html
  Dr Math answers over 60 questions submitted by people about pi including questions on the Bible's relationship to it and its relationship to trigonometry.

• Ask Dr. Math: About Pi

  http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html
  Explains what the constant is and a brief history. Includes resource links.

• Buffon's Needle

  http://mste.illinois.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html
  An analysis of its relation to Pi and a simulation by George Reese.

• Calculating Pi

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectpi/
  An open source endeavor for the calculation of this constant. Describes the project, the implemented algorithms for calculation and software downloads.

• Elias' Pi Page

  http://www.befria.nu/elias/pi/
  Includes Pi in the Binary number system, Pi as a sound file and Pi shown in different images.

• Fun With Pi

  http://lists.topica.com/lists/funwithpi@igc.topica.com/
  A Topica email list. Archives readable by anyone.

• History and Philosophy of Pi

  http://briantaylor.com/Pi.htm
  Probably no symbol of infinity in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number and Greek letter of Pi. Interesting facts and trivia about Pi.

• How Stuff Works: Pi

  http://www.howstuffworks.com/pi.htm
  Animated graphic helps to explain Pi and the different ways of calculating Pi, with some related links.

• Lucy Scale Developments

  http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/ltindex.html
  Pitch, Pi, and other musical paradoxes.

• Pi Approximation Day

  http://www.rebas.se/humor/piapprox.shtml
  22/7 - that is, July 22. For the past few years, people at Chalmers University have celebrated it.

• Pi Land

  http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/
  Fun activities, a Pi trivia game and a Trainer for digit memorization. Pi poetry, artwork, and photography, calculations, digits and book reviews.

• Pi Through the Ages

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
  History.

• Pi World Ranking List

  http://www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/
  Every sport has its championship. Every sport has its world ranking list. For many who like to memorize numbers, PI is the ultimate number, and it makes sense to create a list for people to get in touch and learn where they stand in the world of memorizers.

• The Constant Pi

  http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/pi.html
  History, formulae, algorithms, programs, records of computation, and references.

• The Joy of Pi

  http://www.joyofpi.com/
  Book, digits, links, facts, and quote.

• The Magic Piworld

  http://www.piworld.de/piworld/mpw_home.htm
  Provides generated pictures and personal signs out of digits of Pi. Also a Picture Gallery, PiSign, PiPhonie.

• The Pi Trivia Game

  http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/trivia/?
  History, math, and physics questions.

• The Ridiculously Enhanced Pi Page

  http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/
  Information on links for Pi Day.

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