Etymology of PI – A pictorial explanation

September 14th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Pi (π=3.14159) is always an interesting mathematical constant. We all know what is PI? But have you ever thought about the etymology of Pi?

The below picture reveals the secret.

etymology-of-pie

What an amazing coincidence?  [via neatorama]


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  1. Chetan Gole
    September 15th, 2009 at 03:37 | #1
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    AWESOME !!!

  2. Ashish Kalmegh
    September 19th, 2009 at 10:03 | #2
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    hehe !!
    I never thought in this way

  3. lvleph
    October 15th, 2009 at 22:23 | #3
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    Except the letter pi was used to represent the number before they knew that is was approximately 3.14, Also, the greek letter pi pronounced correctly sounds like the letter p in english.

  4. Vijay
    October 15th, 2009 at 22:39 | #4
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    @lvleph The actual pronunciation of π is something I am not aware of.

    Thanks for the information.

  5. GFYM
    November 14th, 2009 at 17:13 | #5
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  6. MathXprt
    December 16th, 2009 at 02:28 | #6
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    @lvleph
    Yes, but doesn’t that make it all the more amazing?!? It’s as if the same divine hand (or if you prefer, chain reaction of colliding atoms) that created the English spoken language and Arabic number symbols also guided mathematicians to discover the 4.13 approximation. Mind-blowingly cool.

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