History of Pi Hotlist
Sheryl McCoy
Places
Greece
of Archimedes
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
NOVA – Pyramids: The Inside Story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
Stonehenge
http://www.sacredsites.com/1st30/stonehen.html
Facts & News
History of Geometry: Now and Then
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Jordana/MATH.html
Information on the Pyramid Builders
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/pyramid.htm
Mathematics and Archaeology
http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/MegalithicMathematics.html
Pi and Other Constants
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/~pborwein/PISTUFF/Apistuff.html
Culture & Politics
Archimedes of Syracuse
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html
Euclid
of
Alexandria
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Euclid.html
How Fibonacci and the History of Pi are related
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Fibonacci.html
Tu Ch’ung Chi – separate discovery of the irrational number Pi
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Tsu.html
Images
Aerial Image of
Stonehenge
http://www.sacredsites.com/1st30/stonehen.html
Builders of the Pyramid hieroglyphs
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/pyramid.htm
Famous Rhind
Papyrus that shows how Pi was used to build the Pyramids
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Diagrams/Rhind_papyrus.jpeg
NOVA Online: Pyramids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
Pictures of Archimedes
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
Pi Graphics
http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/graphics.html
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