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Introductions to Pi Introduction to the Classical Constants Introductions to Pi Introduction to the classical constants General Golden ratio The division of a line segment whose total length is a + b into two parts a and b where the ratio of a + b to a is equal to the ratio a to b is known as the golden ratio. The two ratios are both approximately equal to 1.618..., which is called the golden ratio constant and usually notated by f: a + b a 1 + 5 1.618 ¼ f. a b 2 The concept of golden ratio division appeared more than 2400 years ago as evidenced in art and architecture. It is possible that the magical golden ratio divisions of parts are rather closely associated with the notion of beauty in pleasing, harmonious proportions expressed in different areas of knowledge by biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, scientists, and even mystics. For example, the Greek sculptor Phidias (490–430 BC) made the Parthenon statues in a way that seems to embody the golden ratio; Plato (427–347 BC), in his Timaeus, describes the five possible regular solids, known as the Platonic solids (the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron), some of which are related to the golden ratio. The properties of the golden ratio were mentioned in the works of the ancient Greeks Pythagoras (c. 580–c. 500 BC) and Euclid (c. 325–c. 265 BC), the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (1170s or 1180s–1250), and the Renaissance astronomer J. Kepler (1571–1630). Specifically, in book VI of the Elements, Euclid gave the following definition of the golden ratio: "A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the less". Therein Euclid showed that the "mean and extreme ratio", the name used for the golden ratio until about the 18th century, is an irrational number. In 1509 L. Pacioli published the book De Divina Proportione, which gave new impetus to the theory of the golden ratio; in particular, he illustrated the golden ratio as applied to human faces by artists, architects, scientists, and mystics. G. Cardano (1545) mentioned the golden ratio in his famous book Ars Magna, where he solved quadratic and cubic equations and was the first to explicitly make calculations with complex numbers. Later M. Mästlin (1597) evaluated 1 f approximately as 0.6180340 ¼. J. Kepler (1608) showed that the ratios of Fibonacci num- bers approximate the value of the golden ratio and described the golden ratio as a "precious jewel". R. Simson (1753) gave a simple limit representation of the golden ratio based on its very simple continued fraction 1 f 1 + 1 . M. Ohm (1835) gave the first known use of the term "golden section", believed to have originated 1+ 1+¼ earlier in the century from an unknown source. J. Sulley (1875) first used the term "golden ratio" in English and G. Chrystal (1898) first used this term in a mathematical context. The symbol f (phi) for the notation of the golden ratio was suggested by American mathematician M. Barrwas in 1909. Phi is the first Greek letter in the name of the Greek sculptor Phidias. http://functions.wolfram.com 2 Throughout history many people have tried to attribute some kind of magic or cult meaning as a valid description of nature and attempted to prove that the golden ratio was incorporated into different architecture and art objects (like the Great Pyramid, the Parthenon, old buildings, sculptures and pictures). But modern investigations (for example, G. Markowsky (1992), C. Falbo (2005), and A. Olariu (2007)) showed that these are mostly misconcep- tions: the differences between the golden ratio and real ratios of these objects in many cases reach 20–30% or more. The golden ratio has many remarkable properties related to its quasi symmetry. It satisfies the quadratic equation 2 z - z - 1 0, which has solutions z1 f and z2 1 - f. The absolute value of the second solution is called the golden ratio conjugate, F f - 1. These ratios satisfy the following relations: 1 1 f - 1 F + 1 . f F Applications of the golden ratio also include algebraic coding theory, linear sequential circuits, quasicrystals, í phyllotaxis, biomathematics, and computer science. Pi The constant p 3.14159 ¼ is the most frequently encountered classical constant in mathematics and the natural sciences. Initially it was defined as the ratio of the length of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Many further interpretations and applications in practically all fields of qualitative science followed. For instance, the following table illustrates how the constant p is applied to evaluate surface areas and volumes of some simple geometrical objects: http://functions.wolfram.com 3 R3 R3 Rn Rn surface area volume hyper surface area hypervolume k k sphere S 4 p r2 p d2 V 4 p r3 p d3 S 2 p r2 k-1 V p r2 3 6 2 k k-1 ! 2 k k! of radius r and diameter d k 2 k+1 k H L H L HS p 2 k! rL2 k VH p L 2 k+1 2 k ! 2 k+1 2 H L n 2 n 2 2 p n-1 p n Sn n r Vn n+2 r I M G H L G H 2 2 4 p pk ellipsoid spheroid containing V a b c containing V2 k 3 J N Jk! N of semi-axes a, b, c, elliptic integrals elliptic integrals k V p 2 k+1 2 or rj H L pn 2Û Vn n+2 rj I G H 2 2 k k-1 2 k M 2 2 p k! 2 k-2 2 p cylinder S 2 p r r + h V p r h S2 k r 2 k - 1 h + 2 r V2 k 2 k ! J 2N of height h and radius r k k S 2 p r2 k-1 h k + r V p 2 k+1 k! 2 k+1 k! H L H H L n-1 HH L L n-1 I M p 2 n-2 p 2 Sn n+1 r n - 1 h + 2 r Vn n+1 h G H L G 2 2 k k-1 2 k-1 cone S p r r + r2 + h2 V p r2 h S 4 p k! r + h2 + r2 r2 k-2 V 2 3 2 k J 2Nk ! HH L L 2 k J N of height h and radius r k 2 2 V p r+ h +r 2 k+1 2 S H L r2 k-1 2 k+1 k! n-1 p 2 h I M n-1 Vn H n p 2 rn-2 r+ h2+r2 n G Sn n+1 G 2 J R R2 J N circumference surface area circle c 2 p r p d S p r2 p d2 4 of radius r and diameter d H L H L ellipse containing S p a b of semi-axes a, b elliptic integrals I M Different approximations of p have been known since antiquity or before when people discovered some basic I M properties of circles. The design of Egyptian pyramids (c. 3000 BC) incorporated p as 22 7 3 + 1 7 ~ 3.142857 ¼ in numerous places. The Egyptian scribe Ahmes (Middle Kingdom papyrus, c. 2000 BC) wrote the oldest known text to give an approximate value for p as 16 9 2 ~ 3.16045¼. Babylonian mathematicians (19th century BC) were using an estimation of p as 25 8, which is within 0.53% of the exact H L value. (China, c. 1200 BC) and the Biblical verse I Kings 7:23 (c. 971–852 BC) gave the estimation of p as 3. H L Archimedes (Greece, c. 240 BC) knew that 3 + 10 71 < p < 3 + 1 7 and gave the estimation of p as 3.1418…. Aryabhata (India, 5th century) gave the approximation of p as 62832/20000, correct to four decimal places. Zu Chongzhi (China, 5th century) gave two approximations of p as 355/113 and 22/7 and restricted p between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927. http://functions.wolfram.com 4 A reinvestigation of p began by building corresponding series and other calculus-related formulas for this constant. Simultaneously, scientists continued to evaluate p with greater and greater accuracy and proved different structural properties of p. Madhava of Sangamagrama (India, 1350–1425) found the infinite series expansion p 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ¼ (currently named the Gregory-Leibniz series or Leibniz formula) and evaluated p with 4 3 5 7 9 11 correct digits. Ghyath ad-din Jamshid Kashani (Persia, 1424) evaluated p with 16 correct digits. F. Viete (1593) 2+ 2+ 2 represented 2 p as the infinite product 2 2 2+ 2 ¼. Ludolph van Ceulen (Germany, 1610) p 2 2 2 evaluated 35 decimal places of p. J. Wallis (1655) represented p as the infinite product p 2 2 4 4 6 6 8 8 ¼. J. 2 1 3 3 5 5 7 7 9 Machin (England, 1706) developed a quickly converging series for p, based on the formula p 4 4 tan-1 1 - tan-1 1 , and used it to evaluate 100 correct digits. W. Jones (1706) introduced the symbol p 5 239 for notation of the Pi constant. L. Euler (1737) adopted the symbol p and made it standard. C. Goldbach (1742) also widely used the symbol p. J. H. Lambert (1761) established that p is an irrational number.
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