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'Justin Carlton PI DAY 3/14/13 * Definition of pi: Pi is the sixteenth letter in the Greek alphabet. It is equal to 3. 141592 when shortened, plainly never ends. * Archimedes-One of the major contributions Archimedes made to mathematics was his system for approximating the value of pi. It had long been recognized that the ratio of the lap of a circle to its diameter was constant, and a matter of approximations had been given up to that point in time. Archimedes was the graduation exercise person to calculate the value of pi. Ptolemy- Ptolemy was an observer and mathematician who had create verbally on astronomical topics such as conjunctions. He devised proofs and theorems in which he was able to evaluate pi. His calculations were pi= 3+17/120=3. 14166. * William Jones- Jones was a mathematician, cognize for his proposal for the use of the symbol ? for pi to equate the ratio of the margin of a circle to its diameter. * PI Jokes Question: What do you get if you divide the cir cumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter? do: Pumpkin Pi!Q: What was Sir Isaac Newtons favorite dessert? A: Apple pi! Mathematician: Pi r form Baker: No! Pie are round, cakes are full-blooded! * A transcendental flesh is a identification number that is not the root of any integer polynomial, importation that it is not an algebraic number of any degree. each real transcendental number must to a fault be irrational, since a rational number is, by definition, an algebraic number of degree one. Ferdinand von Lindeman first called pi a transcendental number * Irrational number is a real number that cannot be verbalised as a rational number.In 1761 Lambert proven that Pi was irrational, that it cant be written as a ratio of integer numbers. Web pages used: http://dictionary. reference. com/ channel-surf/pi http://itech. fgcu. edu/faculty/clindsey/mhf4404/archimedes/archimedes. hypertext mark-up language http://www2. stetson. edu/~efriedma/periodictable/html/Pm. html http:// www. ualr. edu/lasmoller/pi. html http://math-fail. com/2010/03/pi-day-jokes. html http://mathworld. wolfram. com/TranscendentalNumber. html http://www. mathsisfun. com/definitions/irrational-number. html http://www. math. com/tables/constants/pi. htm\r\n'