Borwein is also an expert on the number pi and especially its computation.
In 2004, he raised money for an epilepsy charity by memorizing and publicly reciting the number pi to 22,514 digits - a new European record.
You're telling me there's a message in eleven dimensions hidden deep inside the number pi?
The logo is made up of a test tube, symbolising science, combined with the symbol for the number "pi", symbolising mathematics.
(The one who would wish to know the number pi easily and quickly already knows it.)
(In the real numbers, the intersection of these intervals may be intended to contain the number pi.)
Even though the diameter and circumference are different for different circles, the number pi remains constant: its value never changes.
A mathematician named Lambert also showed in 1761 that the number pi was irrational; that is, it cannot be written as a fraction by normal standards.
The Doctors think the answer is related to the number pi, but upon crossing Winkle is nearly hit by a bowspike.
Economists generally use the Greek letter as the inflation rate, not the mathematical irrational number pi (3.14159....)