A History of Pi- The Greeks (500 B.C.E.- 200 C.E.)

The Greeks stopped asking "How much?" and started to ask "How Come? for the first time. Anaxagoras was the first one to try to find a relationship between a circle and a square. Antiphon and Bryson attempted to find the area of a circle using a new idea. The idea was that if you take a hexagon and doubled the sides, if you kept going, you would get a circle. Antiphon first estimated the area by

The Joy of Pi- A HISTORY OF PI-Early History (2000- 500 B.C.E)

   The earliest ratio was recorded in 1650 B.C. E. by Ahmes on Rhind Papyrus. He said Pi equals 3.16049, which was very accurate for his time. Pi did not have a symbol or name for it at that time, so it was written out as phrases.
  *Pi and the Bible- 1 Kings 7:23=
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
This stated that Pi equals about 3.

The Joy of Pi- INTRODUCTION

The number Pi has confused mathematitions for nearly four thousand year. The number Pi is the ratio of a circle's diameter to its perimeter. The number Pi will never end, and that is what is so fascinating. In this book, there is the history of Pi and how mathematitions around the world has calculated this mysterious number.