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Happy #PiDay! Today (3.14) we celebrate the never-ending, irrational, and infinitely fascinating mathematical constant that helps us understand the world around us. Let's raise a slice of pie (or pi) to the beauty of numbers!
Why #pi matters: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/pi-day-why-pi-matters (words by @stevenstrogatz for #TheNewYorker)
Why Pi Matters
Steven Strogatz discusses the importance of pi, an irrational number that is integral to our understanding of circles, cycles, and the fundamental mathematics of the universe.Steven Strogatz (The New Yorker)
Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
Parts of it were 1st serialized in The Little Review, and the entire work was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach #OTD in 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday. Beach commissioned Darantiere in Dijon to print 1,000 numbered copies consisting of 100 signed copies on Dutch handmade paper, 150 numbered copies on vergé d’Arches paper, and 750 copies on handmade paper, plus an extra 20 unnumbered copies on mixed paper for libraries & press. @wikipedia
Happy 77th birthday to Patricia Lee Smith, influential part of punk rock worldwide, born on this day in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois.
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #pattismith #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Per usual, the Nobel Committee awarded a prize to some of her colleagues, but left her off.
Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation (photographer unknown)
#punk #punkrock #protopunk #loureed #thevelvetunderground #history #punkrockhistory #otd
An Phoblacht Republican News, newspaper of Sinn Féin.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6227/
#SinnFéin #AnPhoblacht #RepublicanNews #IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #OTD
An Phoblacht Republican News, Iml. 1, Uimh. 38 (1979) — Sinn Féin
Commentary and PDF of An Phoblacht Republican News, Iml. 1, Uimh. 38, published by Sinn Féin.Irish Left Archive
Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.
Books by Babbage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/556
#books #mathematics
Books by Babbage, Charles (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 71,838 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg