Application And Significance Of Pi

Karanvir Dhami Ms. Yu ENG3U March 7, 2011 Symbolism in Life of Pi In Life of Pi there are many literary devices used to present the different themes in the novel. The main literary device used in Life of Pi is symbolism. Symbolism is often used to represent an object to something else, either by association or by resemblance. Most of the names of animals, objects and even humans in this novel have a symbolic meaning. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, symbolism such as pi’s name, the colour orange and the algae island, are used throughout the novel to provide Pi with protection to help him either survive or overcome his emotional pain. The mathematical pi is undefined, infinite and unable to be understood, just like Piscine Patel.

The first thing that inadvertently displays Pi as a Christ figure is his name Piscine Molitor Patel. He was named after a Parisian swimming pool that Mamaji described as being “a pool that the gods would have delighted to swim in” (Martel pg 11). The name in of itself, is a place that the gods are reborn, this show the depth of religious fervor Pi is implicated in and it foreshadows the devotion he will have in the future. In an ironic twist his name becomes a playground slur by his classmates, he comments how the harassment his name causes is his “crown of thorns”. To stop the relentless pestering he shortens his name to Pi, which in mathematical terms is a number that is irrational, infinite, and non-repeating. His classmates also soon pick

The mathematical constant to which ‘Pi’ relates his name has a value of 3.14 which is the approximate fraction 22/7 this represents the 227 days Pi survived at sea. When Pi is introducing himself at his new school he goes up to the board in each class during attendance, writes his name and beside it “π = 3.14” and draws “…a large circle, which [he] then slice[s] in two with a diameter, to evoke that basic lesson of geometry.” Pi repeats this same routine with every teacher on the premise that “repetition is important in the training not only of animals but

Pi is an irrational number that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. In the Mile of Pi, Numberphile printed out the first million digits of Pi in a continuous long piece of paper, which stretched for over a mile. They printed out pi and rolled it out for one mile to show that there are cycles of repeating sequences within pi and that every number does not appear evenly. Brady Haran also presents some interesting things that could be found along the way. He points out the Feynman Point which has the number 9 repeated six times. He also pointed out the point where Akira Haraguchi (known for memorizing the most digits of pi) memorized up to. When they reached the end of the mile long paper, the last digit was 1 in

By using geometry to evade irrational numbers, a mathematical crisis had been covered. Although Greeks could not tolerate irrational numbers, they accepted “irrational geometric quantities such as the diagonal of the unit square” (Lecture 8. Eudoxus, Avoided a Fundamental Conflict), or square root

At school in 4th grade, I heard about An infinite number called pi. Then I heard that on pi day (March 14) who ever memorized the most pi got a pie (the food). So every day and night until March 14 I memorized as much pi as I could.

As the title of the novel has already suggested, the name of the protagonist is Pi, legally known as Piscine Moliter Patel. Piscine's first name is later on shortened to "Pi", for it is a much simpler name. If the name is analyzed with further thought, a significant meaning can be uncovered. Pi's name not only represents his identity, but is in a way, connected to the theme the nature of religious beliefs. In the science field, "Pi" is symbolized as the mathematical term for " ". This term is commonly recognized as the number 3.14. In particular aspects of Hinduism, the number 3 signifies the ability an individual possess to build curiosity upon faith and connect with its spirituality. This means that they are often curious about religion

“I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.”

The number pi is unusual, never ending and most importantly, irrational. In the Life of Pi, Piscine and the narrator himself narrates the extraordinary story of how Pi survived on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger on the Pacific Ocean. The number pi is about 22/7 and ironically Pi is all alone for 227 days. Throughout this story one important factor is his name; Pi. There are some significance to his unusual name.

Pi is important in the way the genome is folded. DNA is extremely long compared to the size of the nucleus. The DNA in a single human genome is 2-meters long while the nucleus is only 5 micrometers in diameter. DNA is wrapped around a nucleosome twice and continues on to the next. Millions of nucleosomes are put together to form our DNA causing it to look like a string of beads. This string is 1.5pi (about 5) times shorter than the DNA strand fully stretched

Dr. Fern Webb mentioned using the principle of PIOP (Put It On Paper). Start with writing your manuscript outline and then write your first draft. This draft does not have to be perfect but a start. Find someone that you trust to review this draft. That is why we have the women in research writing group. In order to help with this process and developing the first draft consider using the questions developed by Dr. Jeff Sloan (http://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/sloan-jeff-a-ph-d/bio-00027274) that you should be able to answer without having the data in

In this picture I see a tourist covers her mouth with her hands due to the strong smell caused by the mountains of toxic waste and decaying food. In the back of her, there are three boys smiling at the camera. I believe they’re smiling because they’re happy to see tourist.

Merzbach, U.C. & Boyer, C.B. (2011). A history of mathematics (3rd ed). Hoboken, NJ: John

Abstract The Physics of Prime Numbers [1] Yeow Liiyung University of Leeds Introduces the prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis as an im- portant unsolved problem in mathematics, and suggests that there may be a physical interpretation or embodiment of the problem. Although several physical interpretations are on offer, this paper focuses primarily on how the primes may be connected to quantum physics and classical chaos, and seeks to compile evidence hitherto that this might be true. We take a spec- ulative look into the currently unknown Hermitian Hˆ operator, and explore the attempts to identify it. Although the idea is rather complex, and most calculations and evidence reach a level of technicality far beyond undergrad- uate level, this paper tries to put the idea forward on a level suitable for second-year physics undergraduates’ understanding. 1. Prime Numbers Mathematics is intricately related to physics, and is often employed to aid calculations or derive further understanding on physical concepts. One fundamental field of mathematics is number theory, specifically the area con- cerning prime numbers. Prime numbers are numbers that do not have factors other than itself and the number 1; they are not products of other numbers. In this sense, they are like the atoms of numbers and arithmetic, because it is possible to uniquely construct the rest of the numbers from products of prime numbers. While Christian Goldbach’s conjecture that every number is a sum of two

My concept for the creative writing piece was a letter written by Pi to his deceased family members. The aspects of the text that inspired me to write a letter were Pi’s relationships with them. One particular scene that provoked me to write this piece is when Pi’s family didn’t understand why he adhered to multiple religions. This piece relates to the aspect of Pi’s relationships by illustrating what Pi wished he said to his family. I chose to write about Pi craving his mother’s food because in the book Pi was craving different foods, which must have been cooked from his mother, leading him to think about her. This point show how Pi had the strongest relationship with his mother in the family. The Aspects of Pi’s relationship with Ravi and