Able Quote by Daniel Tammet

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

— Isaac Newton

Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is…

— Daniel Tammet

I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll…

— Andrew Schneider

“By the early 1600s mathematicians had managed to crank out an approximation of pi that was accurate to 35 digits, which is far more…

— David Stipp

How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it.…

— Tom Duff

“On a scale of 1 to extroverted, I’m a 3.14159. So is pi. I network like “the ratio of a circle's circumference to its…

— Jarod Kintz

“Such was the ugly face of the Middle Ages. It is not surprising that mathematics made little progress; toward the Renaissance, European mathematics reached…

— Petr Beckman

As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what…

— Margaret Wertheim

“If you were given to thinking of numbers as having human-like qualities, you might picture e^i*pi as a guru into transcendental meditation who'd achieved…

— David Stipp

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and…

— Mark Twain

“π is a mathematician’s dessert”

— Neve Maslakovic

Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's…

— Robert Kanigel