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Who is the first person discovered pi?

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Who is the first person discovered pi?

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  1. Archimedes was one of the people to follow in Antiphon and Bryson's footsteps. When Archimedes started studying circles, he used the exhaustion theory to aid him. The only difference is that he focused his attention on the perimeters of the circles instead of the areas. Using this new theory, he placed Pi to 3.1419. This is less than three ten-thousandths from the true value. The Chinese also discovered Pi in the 12th century B.C.E. The Chinese mathematician Liu h*i found that Pi lies between 3.141024 and 3.142704. Later on he placed it to 3.1416. One person who is often associated with Pi is Leonardo de Pisa. He is most commonly known by his nickname Fibonacci. In 1220 C.E. He calculated Pi was equal to 3.1418. This was only .0001 more accurate than Archimedes placement and had obviously not been influenced by Chinese equations. In 1882, Ferdinand Lindermann, a German mathematician, was the first to prove that Pi is a transcendental number. That means that it is not the root of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients. This proved it is impossible to square a circle.


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