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Happy Pi Day
Robert Campbell
March 14, 2024
What better way to celebrate math than with a little history quiz?
400-level: Tell me the answer without scrolling down to see the question. (As always, don’t overthink it. It’s just a little question with a little answer, and it’s not a joke or trick.)
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(This is a bit like the animations beloved by 1990s college kids, watched by pressing the space bar to page down in Pine, a text-only email program. But that’s not the question.)
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300-level: Why did the history professor love this circle?
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(Just upstairs from here there was a knock at a quarter till and I told the students, “I’ve never done this, but you’re such a great class that you get pie.” And my mother and father brought in pie. (The mother makes great pie.) But that was not on March 14th.)
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100-level: Well, abstract circles only have about one attribute. So then let’s start here: What is this circle’s demeter? Sorry, I mean, dimeter?
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Photo: BHSUmedia.com, 10 February 2014.
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We’ll celebrate PIE day some other time.
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