Who Invented The World Of Pi

Pi, the most talked about yet the least known about, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle over the diameter, and is one of the most important numbers ever to be used in mathematics. The world of Pi is very interesting, detailed, and complex. There is a very large history of how pi was found and of different ways mathematicians and civilizations calculated Pi. A few of the many examples of the calculation of pi are from Archimedes, Ahmes, the Chinese, the ancient Babylonians, and also the ancient Egyptians. In today’s society there are also many real world uses of Pi.

Pi has a very rich and detailed history since it's creation long ago. It has been a well known ratio for around 4000 years. Many mathematicians have used different ways of calculating Pi but the first to make a huge breakthrough was a man by the name of Archimedes. To calculate the magical number of Pi, Archimedes used the Pythagorean Theorem to find the perimeter of two regular polygons. He used at first a Hexagon, but then thought is not a circle just a polygon with so many sides that you can’t count (He might not have actually said that). So he went on doubling the sides of these polygons (on the left), until he reached a 96-gon as we demonstrated in our model, knowing the more sides the more accurate the number. These polygons were inscribed and circumscribed

After the ideas of mathematicians like Archimedes spread to China and other places on the east they started to make more advanced calculations as well. Zu Chongzhi one of the best chinese mathematicians of the time, was the first person to come up with accurate first six digits of Pi. He calculated it to 3.141592 also known as 355/113, sadly many of his books and works have been lost, therefore no one knows exactly how he actually came up with his