The π Piper



It is an irony that the number π is called an irrational number considering that most of our rational thoughts rely on it. Who could have thought that the ratio of circumference to the diameter, that cannot be precisely determined, would appear almost everywhere in mathematics and in physics - from calculating the area of a circle, to finding a place in the famed Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The posts under this blog heading 'The π Piper' talks about numbers that creep up in our day to day life and how we can understand and effectively use them to our advantage. The posts in this blog are also about rationality and assigning numbers to our decisions that help us to arrive at a more favourable outcome. I hope that these posts draw you to the wonderful world of numbers that we fail to see in our day to day lives. 

About the Author

Gaurav has seen ups and downs of the IT industry since the last century. He has been developing, designing, training, managing, coding, testing, supporting and goofing up many software applications for past many years. He moved to writing programs as soon as he graduated in 1999 - his first challenging task was changing the wallpaper of his windows 98 machine. Since then he has never looked back. He currently prides himself to be an expert in Java programming, web application and android programming. He manages multiple development and support teams. He loves reading physics and mathematics too. Apart from making and destroying software, he has a passion for few other good things in life. That includes beer. If he is not drinking it, then probably he is brewing it at home. 

You can send your praise, anger, disappointment, suggestions and complaints on his articles to his email id – gauravvishal@yahoo.com. If your suggestions make a difference then they will be incorporated in the next edition of the articles. 

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