To say that I am not particularly good in math is one of the great understatements of the century. So, National Pi Day (celebrated on 3.14) is a fine line between aspiration and mortification. Pi, in case you can’t quite remember (like moi) is the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle.
On the aspiration front, there is a super article on CNN.com featuring Daniel Tammet, a man who is promoting France’s first Pi Day celebration at the Palace of Discovery science museum in Paris. Pi Day brings to memory an important personal event for Tammet. When he was 25 years old, he recited 22,514 digits of pi from memory in 2004, scoring the European record. He said these numbers aloud for 5 hours and 9 minutes in front of an audience at the Museum of History Science in Oxford. How stunning is that?
Daniel Tammet is one Silver Lining guy! He has a fabulous ted talk during which he describes himself as a, “high functioning autistic savant.” Take a break, watch & learn: