Pi In The Sky, Literally

Ishky, a California-born artists collaborated with programmers and scientists to do one of the most compelling stunts: to write the first 1000 digits of the irrational number pi (or \pi) in the sky. Yes, literally.

The stunt was done in San Francisco Bay Area using five planes  at 10,000 feet.  The five synchronized planes wrote the digits of \pi using some  dot matrix technology. The stunt was part of the Zero1 Biennial celebration.

H/T: Gizmodo.com

Steven Strogatz’s New Math Series in NY Times

In December 2010, I shared a brilliant mathematics series written by Steven Strogatz at the Opinionator blog of New York Times.  Last Monday, Steven has started another series with Singular Sensations. This is the first of the six articles  of the new series which he titled Me, MySelf, and Math. According to Steven,  the series will focus on how “the subject he loves (mathematics) relate to the subject we all love (ourselves).”

Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz is an American mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for his contributions in mathematical biology and complex network theory.

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