{"id":191628,"date":"2024-06-22T22:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/mathematicians-accidentally-found-a-new-way-to-represent-pi"},"modified":"2024-06-22T22:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:26:20","slug":"mathematicians-accidentally-found-a-new-way-to-represent-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/mathematicians-accidentally-found-a-new-way-to-represent-pi","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians Accidentally Found a New Way to Represent Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematicians-accidentally-found-a-new-way-to-represent-pi2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-pi-and-why-is-there-a-day-about-it\">favorite mathematical constant<\/a>, pi (\u03c0), describing the ratio between a circle\u2019s circumference and its diameter, has taken on new meaning.<\/p>\n<p>The new representation was borne out of the twists and turns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/string-theory\">string theory<\/a>, and two mathematicians\u2019 attempts to better describe particle collisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur efforts, initially, were never to find a way to look at pi,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iisc.ac.in\/events\/iisc-physicists-find-a-new-way-to-represent-pi\/\">says<\/a> Aninda Sinha of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) who co-authored the new work with fellow IISc mathematician Arnab Priya Saha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite mathematical constant, pi (\u03c0), describing the ratio between a circle\u2019s circumference and its diameter, has taken on new meaning. The new representation was borne out of the twists and turns of string theory, and two mathematicians\u2019 attempts to better describe particle collisions. \u201cOur efforts, initially, were never to find a way to look [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}