Timeline for What are some fundamental "sources" for the appearance of pi in mathematics?
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| Aug 10, 2011 at 8:00 | answer | added | Bruno | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 10, 2011 at 0:15 | comment | added | Will Jagy | snorgtees.com/octopi | |
| Aug 9, 2011 at 21:24 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | @Ben Weiss: Really 7/22, as in $7.22$ or $0.318\overline{18}$?...$$ $$ Even if you write July 22 as $22/7$ it's not quite right, though it comes close; see mathoverflow.net/questions/67384 for recent MO discussion of one way to explain "$\pi$ Approximation Day". | |
| Aug 9, 2011 at 21:19 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 5, 2010 at 10:47 | answer | added | lhf | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 5, 2010 at 6:05 | answer | added | Gerry Myerson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 22:41 | comment | added | Ben Weiss | I've heard that 7/22 is the correct holiday. | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 22:08 | answer | added | Gjergji Zaimi | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 21:31 | answer | added | gowers | timeline score: 20 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 18:18 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | Ken Ribet has said that the correct holiday is June 28. | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 18:01 | answer | added | Dinakar Muthiah | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 17:57 | answer | added | Douglas Zare | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 17:43 | answer | added | Torsten Ekedahl | timeline score: 19 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 17:37 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | $e^{\pi i} = -1$ | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 17:30 | answer | added | Douglas Zare | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 17:20 | answer | added | Robin Chapman | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 17:18 | answer | added | Tom Leinster | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 17:00 | history | asked | Qiaochu Yuan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |