February
27
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.
Thank you for featuring my geeky pi bowl, I’m quite proud of the level of meekness of this one!
Z x
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 .
Oh for goodness sake, stupid phone autocorrect! Meekness = geekyness!!