pi

Type: 
Topical Term
Subfield: 
a
Alias: 
pi

Happy Pi Day to you!

2020
"The Cat in the Hat visits Sally and Dick's school on Pi Day and shows them how to measure pi"--Provided by publisher.

Sir Cumference and the dragon of pi

a math adventure
When Sir Cumference drinks a potion which turns him into a dragon, his son Radius searches for the magic number known as pi which will restore him to his former shape.
Cover image of Sir Cumference and the dragon of pi

The joy of

Provides historical information, anecdotes, trivia, cartoons, poems, limericks, and jokes about the transcendental number pi.

Why pi?

[how math applies to everyday life?]
Explores the history of mankind's use of mathematics to explain the world and its processes and outlines an assortment of ways in which math is put to use in real-world situations in the present.

Pi

a biography of the world's most mysterious number
2004
Presents a comprehensive study of the mathematical term Pi, and examines its origin, how it is used, and how scholars have determined the value of Pi.

A history of

1976
Traces the history of the mathematical constant pi from the stone age through the computer age, discussing the background of the times when pi progressed, and when it did not.

The joy of

1999
Provides historical information, anecdotes, trivia, cartoons, poems, limericks, and jokes about the transcendental number pi.

Why pi?

[how math applies to everyday life?]
2009
Explores the history of mankind's use of mathematics to explain the world and its processes and outlines an assortment of ways in which math is put to use in real-world situations in the present.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - pi