Mathematician Carlos Castillo-Chavez says that pi is so important to math that using its simple, geometric definition denies ... and beauty of the mathematical constant, while others try to ...

I don’t mean that the value is incorrect ... But, as some mathematicians have argued, the mathematical constant was poorly chosen, and students worldwide continue to suffer as a result.

In 2014, Joseph Mazur, author of Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and ... We’ll take it. By definition, pi is a specific ratio, the circumference of a circle ...