Math lovers widely celebrate March 14 as Pi Day. Written as 3/14, the date matches the first three digits of pi—the constant ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. One can go even further on that day, celebrating by the minute (3/14, 1:59) or the second (3/14, 1:59:26) to […]
Tag: Geometry
A Bottomless Night and a New World
Euclid’s Elements is undoubtedly the most famous single mathematical work, renowned since the 3rd century BC as a model of logical reasoning. Much of this fame comes from its five simple postulates, from which all subsequent theorems are derived. (Modern mathematicians tend to use the term axiom for fundamental premises […]