February 27

Geeky Pi Bowl

"Geeky Pi Bowl"Zena, of West Art & Glass, handcrafts a variety of glass items in her UK flat. I spotted this delightful shallow bowl, which features the number pi spiraling out to 1,498 places in her Etsy shop. I don’t consider myself a math geek, but I do appreciate pi and think it would be a fun way to serve and eat the other kind of pie.


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Posted February 27, 2011 by Jodi in category "Craft", "Geek", "Science

3 COMMENTS :

  1. By Zena on

    Thank you for featuring my geeky pi bowl, I’m quite proud of the level of meekness of this one!

    Z x

  2. By Ted A. Hunt on

    Your Pi dish is delightful! I’m a bit of a math geek and enjoy the aspects and lore of transcendent numbers. Have you found inspiration in the number Phi, the Golden Ratio? It’s

    (5^0.5 + 1)/2

    [Add 1 to the square root of 5 then divide the total by 2. It’s ~ 1.6180. ] Project Gutenberg has published a computation of Phi to many decimal places at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/744/pg744.epub or http://tinyurl.com/4bc9r2j .

    Phi is found again and again in nature and mathematics, the nautilus shell spiral being perhaps the most beautiful example.

    There’s a contemporary book by astrophysicist Mario Livio titled “The Golden Ratio”, subtitled ‘The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number’, ISBN 0-7679-0816-3; Publisher http://www.broadwaybooks.com .

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