Pi Day Exhibit 2015

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Pi Day, March 14, 2015, 9:26am – 5:35pm

The library held a special exhibit in conjunction with the Department of Mathematics’ Pi Day Celebration.

Exhibit Image Gallery

Crafts on Display

Books on Display

  1. [Pi] : a biography of the world’s most mysterious number / Alfred S. Posamentier & Ingmar Lehmann ; afterword by Herbert A. Hauptman. (Math 512.73 P84b)
  2. [Pi]–a new value / by T.S. Jarnecki. (Math 516.184 J29N)
  3. [pi]-calculus : a theory of mobile processes / Davide Sangiorgi, David Walker. (Math 004.6 Sa582p)
  4. Archimedes : what did he do besides cry eureka? / Sherman Stein. (Math 510.924 Ar2st)
  5. Babylonian theorem : the mathematical journey to Pythagoras and Euclid / Peter S. Rudman. (Undergrad QA22 .R859 2010)
  6. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio; translated with an introd. and notes, by William Harris Stahl. (Undergrad Q151 .M17 1952)
  7. Computer as crucible : an introduction to experimental mathematics / Jonathan Borwein, Keith Devlin ; with illustrations by Karl H. Hofmann. (Math 510 B649c)
  8. Distributed pi-calculus / Matthew Hennessy. (Main Stacks 004.36 H392d)
  9. Do I count? : stories from mathematics / Günter M. Ziegler ; translated by Thomas von Foerster. (Math 510 Z625d:E)
  10. Five-minute mathematics / Ehrhard Behrends ; translated by David Kramer. (Math 510 B395f:E)
  11. Free algebras and PI-algebras : graduate course in algebra / author, Vesselin Drensky. (Math 512 D815f)
  12. Geometric probability / Herbert Solomon. (Math 519.2 SO4G)
  13. History of (pi) / Petr Beckmann. (Engineering 516.22 B38h1974)
  14. History of (pi). (Math 516.22 B38H)
  15. History of mathematics / Carl B. Boyer ; revised by Uta C. Merzbach ; [foreword by Isaac Asimov.] (Math 510.9 B691HI1991)
  16. History of the circle : mathematical reasoning and the physical universe / Ernest Zebrowski, Jr. (Math 510 Z19h)
  17. Is mathematics inevitable? : a miscellany / edited by Underwood Dudley. (Math 510 Is11)
  18. Joy of [pi] / David Blatner. (Uni High 516.22 B613J)
  19. King of numbers, by Richard A. Zarro. Illus. by Mel Fowler. (SSHEL Oak Street  S.513.55 Z19k)
  20. Math goes to the movies / Burkard Polster, Marty Ross. (Math 791 P767m)
  21. Mathematical journeys / Peter D. Schumer. (Math 510 Sch865m)
  22. Mathematical treks : from surreal numbers to magic circles / Ivars Peterson. (Math 510 P442m)
  23. Mathematics experiments : Shangzhi Li … [et al.]. (Math 510.78 L612m)
  24. Mathematics galore! : the first five years of the St. Mark’s Institute of Mathematics / James Tanton. (Math 510 T159m)
  25. Monographs on topics of modern mathematics, relevant to the elementary field, ed. by J.W.A. Young. (Math 510 Y82M)
  26. Number [pi] / Pierre Eymard, Jean-Pierre Lafon ; translated by Stephen S. Wilson. (Math 516.22 Ey51a:E)
  27. Perfect pie. (Oak Street Facility)
  28. Pi and the AGM : a study in analytic number theory and computational complexity / Jonathan M. Borwein, Peter B. Borwein. (Math 512.7 B649P)
  29. Pi in the sky / Wendy Mass. (SSHEL S Collection S. M381pi)
  30. Pi in the sky : counting, thinking, and being / John D. Barrow. (Math 510 B2792P)
  31. Pi, a source book / [edited by] Lennart Berggren, Jonathan Borwein, Peter Borwein. (Math 516.22 P572000)
  32. Pi, a source book / [edited by] Lennart Berggren, Jonathan Borwein, Peter Borwein. (Math 516.22 P572004)
  33. PI-algebras : an introduction / Nathan Jacobson. v.441(1975) (Math 510 L493 v.441)
  34. Pi-unleashed / Jörg Arndt, Christoph Haenel ; translated from the German by Catriona and David Lischka. MAIN VOL. (Math 516.15 Ar618p:E)
  35. Pie magic / Toby Forward ; pictures by Laura Cornell. (SSHEL Oak Street S.F779p)
  36. Pie went by / by Carolyn Dunn ; illustrated by Christopher Santoro. (SSHEL S Collection Q. SE. D922p)
  37. Piece of pi : wit-sharpening, brain-bruising, number-crunching activities with pi / written by Naila Bokhari, illustrated by S. O’Shaughnessy. (SSHEL Curriculum CURR. 516.22 DANDYL2001)
  38. Prickly pie / written and illustrated by Racey Helps. (SSHEL Oak Street)
  39. Ramanujan’s place in the world of mathematics : essays providing a comparative study / Krishnaswami Alladi. (Math 510.92 R142al)
  40. Rediscovering mathematics : you do the math / Shai Simonson. (Math 510 Si575r)
  41. Sherlock Holmes in Babylon : and other tales of mathematical history / edited by Marlow Anderson, Victor Katz, Robin Wilson. (Math 510.92 H734)
  42. Sir Cumference and the dragon of pi : a math adventure / by Cindy Neuschwander ; illustrated by Wayne Geehan. (SSHEL S Collection S.516 N398sird)
  43. Theories of everything : the quest for ultimate explanation / John D. Barrow. (Undergrad Q175 .B225 1991)
  44. Visions of infinity : the great mathematical problems / Ian Stewart. (Math 510 St494v)
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