Lukol Directory: Science: Math: Recreations: Specific Numbers: Pi

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

Earth Mysteries : Notes on Pi (¼ )
An introduction to the number Pi and its history.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMP...

Fabrice Bellard's PI page
Showcases digit extraction and FFT multiplication algorithms.
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi/

Pi Memorama
Includes a program that teaches Pi for the Mac, a page on why people learn to recite Pi and pages on how to memorise Pi.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~mnaylor/pi.html

How pi?
Extracting the digits of pi from the SlOka
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/...

Pi Through the Ages
History.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor...

The Pi Trivia Game
History, math, and physics questions.
http://eveander.com/trivia/

Fun With Pi
A Topica email list. Archives readable by anyone.
http://lists.topica.com/lists/funwithpi@ig...

Dale's Pi Page
Includes history of Pi, songs and jokes, poems, news and the first 1,000,000 digits.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pin...

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

The Pi Pages
Information on Pi, its history, its future, and the people involved in its calculations.
http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html

Ask Dr. Math - Pi
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.
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/tocs/pi.middl...

Your Piece of the Pi
This site describes pi's history, characteristics, and application. It also includes a distributed computing application for finding a large number of digits.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110195

Paul's Page of Pi
Includes introduction on why people would want to calculate Pi, four methods for calculating it, over 8000 digits, poems and music.
http://www.escape.com/~paulg53/math/pi.htm...

John Mathews' bibliography for Computation of Pi
Over a hundred references to the computation of pi.
http://math.fullerton.edu/mathews/n2003/pi...

A New Approach to the Universal Constant "pi"
A text that tries to prove that pi is 3.1416 exactly.
http://alkyone.com/mak-pi-gr/en/

Bailey on Pi
Briefly explains David Bailey's work with NASA's supercomputers and the development of a workable formula to evaluate Pi for any number of decimal places.
http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/bailey.html

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

A Tribute to Pi
Club and information.
http://www.acc.umu.se/~olletg/pi/tribute.h...

History and Philosophy of Pi
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.
http://briantaylor.com/Pi.htm

Pi Patterns
Images and illustrations created by using the digits of the circle constant.
http://www.antigravitypress.com/Math/pi/

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

David Bailey's Pi Directory
Articles, papers, programmes, tools, algorithms on the calculation of pi.
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/pi/index.html

The Ridiculously Enhanced Pi Page
Information on links for Pi Day.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/

Pi Shop
Provides accessories with Pi-Prints on them. Shirts, mugs and bags.
http://www.cafepress.com/piday314

Randomly Distributed Slices of pi
An article by Charles Seife about how mathematicians slowly circle in on a proof that pi's unpredictable digits really are as random as they seem.
http://www.nersc.gov/~dhbailey/pi-science....

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

Pi, Pi, Mathematical Pi
Parody of the song "Bye Bye Miss American Pie" elaborating on the history of pi.
http://www.vvc.edu/ph/TonerS/mathpi.html

The Uselessness of Pi and its Irrational Friends
Clubs, links, memorizing technique, records, art, and programs.
http://www.go2net.com/internet/useless/use...

Indiana Pi Bill
Bill proposing new value of pi.
http://tafkac.org/legal/indiana_pi_bill.ht...

One Billion Digits of Pi
Ramanujan, modular equations, and approximations.
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/bor...

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

Science News Online: Pi à la Mode
An article describing a potential link between two disparate mathematical fields-number theory and chaotic dynamics-that could lead to a proof that every digit of pi occurs with the same frequency.
http://www.sciencenews.org/20010901/bob9.a...

Is Pi normal?
An article by Stan Wagon about the idea of normality, first introduced by E. Borel in 1909, is an attempt to formalize the notion of a real number being random.
http://pi314.at/math/normal.html

Land of Pi
Pi digits, random links, and some downloads.
http://www.geocities.com/landofpi/

Pi 3.1416
Mathematics as the language of nature.
http://www.freewebs.com/pi3point1416/

The 1000 billionth binary digit of PI is '1' !
Announcement of the 1000 billionth digit of Pi. [English/français]
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi-challeng...

The Constant Pi
History, formulae, algorithms, programs, records of computation, and references.
http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constan...

The Joy of Pi
Book, digits, links, facts, and quote.
http://www.joyofpi.com/

A Slice of Pi Home Page
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.
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337...

Ancient Pi: Knowers of the Universe
The concept of pi refers to the constant ratio of the diameter:circumference of any circle; irrespective of the number of degrees contained within that circle. An article in the "Science in Ancient Artwork"-Series by Charles William Johnson.
http://www.earthmatrix.com/ancient/pi.htm

Ask Dr. Math: About Pi
Explains what the constant is and a brief history. Includes resource links.
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.ht...

Pi World Ranking List
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.
http://www.pi-world-ranking-list.com/

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

Buffon's Needle
An analysis of its relation to Pi and a simulation by George Reese.
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buff...

Calculating Pi
Investigates and implements algorithms which may yield to distributed computation of the mathematical constant Pi.
http://projectpi.sourceforge.net/

Sub Topics:
Pi - The Movie
Poetry
Digits
Calculation


Related Topics:
Science: Math: Geometry: Plane Geometry



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