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  Pitanic Video Speaking Notes Hundreds of mathematicians in history have dedicated their lives (or big portions of their lives) to finding pi. Swiss researchers have set a new record in 2021 for 62.8 trillion decimals, which was breaking the previous record in 2020 of 50 trillion. So why study pi so thoroughly when only 39 decimal places would be enough to compute the circumference of a circle surrounding the known universe to within the radius of a hydrogen atom? 1. It’s impressive and gives people bragging rights 2. Humans have a natural inclination to break records 3. Digits can be used as a stress test for supercomputers (Agarwal, 2013) 4. It’s all around us and even in our DNA! Here is a quote from Agarwal (2013): “Pi’s appearance in the disks of the Moon and the Sun, makes it as one of the most ancient numbers known to humanity. It hides in the rainbow, and sits in the pupil of the eye, and when a raindrop falls into water π emerges in the spreading rings. Pi can be found i...

 I think that perhaps Ramanujan had the Ordinal Linguistic Personification quality and more connections in his brain that was discussed in the article by Major.  I personally would choose to mention this in my math class as a way for students to connect to the numbers and better be able to do math in their heads. When we associate numbers with certain feelings, visuals, words, etc I feel that it makes it easier to trace them and remember them as we work. I think it would make it easier to trace back to where we may have made mistakes, and give students an appreciation for the feeling of each type of question.  I always remember numbers very easily and I do think that this is why. I thought while reading this article that maybe I have the same Ordinal Linguistic Personification quality as Ramanujan. Numbers do have a certain feeling to me, and I dont actively memorize them very often. But I still accidentally remember them all the time without knowing it. If someone asks m...

 I will be covering the history of the discovery of Pi! My artistic method will be digital media/video :) Here is my reference list thus far:  References 박제남 . (2020). Controversial history of pi in ancient egypt, old babylonia, and ancient greek  mathematics. 한국수학사학회지 , 33 (4), 223-236. MacTutor. (2000, September). Pi Chronology . Maths History. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from  https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Pi_chronology/.  MacTutor. (2001, September). Pi history . Maths History. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from  https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages/.  Bailey, D. H., & Borwein, J. M.Pi: The next generation: A sourcebook on the recent history of pi  and its computation. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32377-0 Wardhaugh, B. (2016). Filling a gap in the history of [pi] : An exciting discovery. The  Mathematical Intelligencer, 38 (1), 6. https:...

 Three things that surprised me while reading this were:  1. Just like in my permutations presentation and Jenny's probability presentation for assignment 2, there is a mysticism behind numbers! This is so cool because we often see numbers as fact and mystical and spiritual things as more of a belief. But the combination of the two and how they supported each other is so interesting! It's also interesting how mysticism has stayed in numbers and the sacred nature of numbers like 6 and 108 etc.  2. I thought that it was also interesting that certain numbers are male and female. They do seem to have certain connotations which could be related to the sacred history of certain numbers. I actually feel like numbers 2, 7, 14 are more female and numbers 4, 5 are also feminine but for some reason remind me of money and numbers with 6 like 60, 68, 16, 6 feel masculine! Isn't it funny how our brains associate our experiences and feelings with numbers? I wonder what/who subliminally ...

Although I wasn't able to make it to class, I still learned a lot from just reading the slides! Here are 4 things that stuck with me:  1. In Ivan's presentation, I really appreciated the inclusion of the Ojibwa, an Anishinaabe Nation, who started measuring distance by the time it took them to travel. I find this so natural and beautiful; a very immersive form of measurement. I am currently reading a book titled Rewind Yourself (which I can recommend like nothing else!) about how to enjoy nature by immersing yourself in new ways. This form of measurement, accounting for rough terrain and weather is kind of a wonderful way to think of measurement and a very interesting new way to immerse yourself in nature. How long does it take to travel by foot from here to hope? Well, now I want to find out! It is kind of beautiful to think that people can take all sorts of pathways to get to the same destination, and that each measurement is representative of the timing, decisions, and person...

 4 things I learned today during the presentations:  1. From my own presentation, and from all the presentations in general, I learned the value of working together. So often, people all over the world came up with similar mathematical rules hundreds or sometimes even thousands of years apart! Imagine if they had had the same resources and abilities that we do to work together internationally. Some may have saved so much time and we may have been more advanced today!  2. Another thing that was reinforced for me today was that people do not always get proper credit. For example, during the Pascal's triangle presentation, we learned that Tartaglia gave six rows of Pascal's triangle before Pascal did, and we don't really for sure know where Pascal got his rows from. Perhaps he copied them, came up with them himself, or had help. Either way, he got credit when more people had discovered it before him. This also speaks to what Michelle was saying about how people had very simi...