Essays Tagged: "Srinivasa Ramanujan"

The History of Pi

pi is calculated 3.1416. Ludolph de Ceulen of Germany calculated pi to 35 places in the year 1600. Ramanujan from India created the formula for pi in the year 1900. In 1990, a man from New York was a ... r 1900. In 1990, a man from New York was able to calculate 2 billion digits of pi using the formula Ramanujan made.

(1 pages) 74 0 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics