Remember Pi? We all met that imprecise precision during our school days, right? Must be in the eighth standard, I suppose. Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, is by definition irrational, as it is not equal to the ratio of any two whole numbers.
As old as the Babylonians and our dear Eureka Archimedes (remember how fun n crazy he appeared during the school days), the famous pi travelled via Newton to our very own Ramanujan. Its famous symbol would steal our sleep when the school exams would approach fast, right?
Though just the mere approximations of the pi are taken in to consideration while busy with actual calculations, pi is the fulcrum of architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering.
Literature as usual is hugely broad-minded. So, yet again, as an avid reader, it was nice meeting Pi, the story behind the name, and the tremendous saga of his travel with Richard Parker, the fierce bengal tiger, in "The Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. Despite the inevitable animation, truly awe-inspiring was the intensely surreal film based on the novel, and directed by Ang Lee.
Pi, unlike its homophonic 'pie', is both simultaneously, infinite uncertainty and perfect precision. May be, hence, it is a factor everywhere, in our daily lives, in our effective communications, in our careers, in our small decisions that have a big effect, in our relationships; the list can be endless, right?
May be, pi is that sudden moment of not breathing that makes an alive existence in to a 'body'. May be, pi is that point of epiphanic illumination that suddenly explodes the meaning that we have been exploring for a lifetime. Yes, pi is that forever search of the infinite in the finite, whatever may be the name you may give it, God being one of them. Pi, in short, remains with us even after school days and childhood ways transform in to nostalgia, a blurred memory!
Pratima@On this Day dedicated to the phenomenal Pi/a genuine attempt to "re-search" its how, what and why!
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