The annual day celebrating the mysterious irrational number known as pi is upon us (well, it's about over now; sorry, I got to this kinda late today).
Anyway, in honor of Pi Day, here are some quotes celebrating that glorious number:
"What good is your beautiful investigation regarding pi ? Why study such problems, since irrationl numbers do not exist?"
- Leopold Kronecker
"If we take the world of geometrical relations, the thousandth decimal of pi sleeps there, through no one may ever try to compute it."
- William James
"Computing pi is the ultimate stress test for a computer - a kind of digital cardiogram"
- Ivars Peterson
"To ask for the system in pi is like asking 'Is there life after death?'; When you die, you'll find out."
- Richard Preston
"There's a beauty to pi that keeps us looking at it ... The digits of pi are extremely random; They really have no pattern, and in mathematics that's really the same as saying they have every pattern."
- Peter Borwein
"Pi is not just a collection of random digits. Pi is a journey; an experience; unless you try to see the natural poetry that exists in pi, you will find it very difficult to learn"
- Antranig Basman
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