Corners Quote by Robert Kanigel

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

“π is a mathematician’s dessert”

— Neve Maslakovic

“In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie.”

— Dan Florence

“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

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

“Despite their ubiquity on the number line, transcendentals are surprisingly hard to pin down. It took until 1873 to prove that e was transcendental,…

— Matt Parker

One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a…

— David Eugene Smith

“The proof in 1882 that pi is a transcendental number put a 2,000 year old problem to rest: for any given circle, can you…

— Matt Parker

Math education has changed over the years. In the 19th century, they taught spherical trigonometry because one of the biggest applications of mathematics was…

— Terence Tao

A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to…

— Sal Khan

The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively…

— David van Dantzig

“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