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Indiana Pi Bill

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A Bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the Legislature of 1897 |citation. [1]

34 relations: A History of Pi, American Mathematical Monthly, Angle trisection, Archimedes, Bloomington, Indiana, Chicago Tribune, Circumference, Clarence Abiathar Waldo, Compass-and-straightedge construction, Diameter, Doubling the cube, Equilateral triangle, Ferdinand von Lindemann, German language, Indiana, Indiana Academy of Science, Indiana General Assembly, Indiana House of Representatives, Indiana Senate, Indianapolis, Isoperimetric inequality, Jan Gullberg, Legislature, Petr Beckmann, Pi, Purdue University, Snopes.com, Square, Square root, Squaring the circle, Suspension of the rules, Table (parliamentary procedure), The Straight Dope, Truth.

A History of Pi

A History of Pi (also titled A History of) is a 1970 non-fiction book by Petr Beckmann that presents a layman's introduction to the concept of the mathematical constant pi.

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American Mathematical Monthly

The American Mathematical Monthly is a mathematical journal founded by Benjamin Finkel in 1894.

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Angle trisection

Angle trisection is a classical problem of compass and straightedge constructions of ancient Greek mathematics.

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse (Ἀρχιμήδης) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

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Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Circumference

In geometry, the circumference (from Latin circumferentia, meaning "carrying around") of a circle is the (linear) distance around it.

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Clarence Abiathar Waldo

Clarence Abiathar Waldo (January 21, 1852 – October 1, 1926) was an American mathematician, author and educator today most famous for the role he played in the Indiana Pi Bill affair.

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Compass-and-straightedge construction

Compass-and-straightedge construction, also known as ruler-and-compass construction or classical construction, is the construction of lengths, angles, and other geometric figures using only an idealized ruler and compass.

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Diameter

In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.

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Doubling the cube

Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient geometric problem.

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Equilateral triangle

In geometry, an equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides are equal.

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Ferdinand von Lindemann

Carl Louis Ferdinand von Lindemann (April 12, 1852 – March 6, 1939) was a German mathematician, noted for his proof, published in 1882, that pi (pi) is a transcendental number, meaning it is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficients.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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Indiana Academy of Science

The Indiana Academy of Science is a non-profit organization for the advancement of science.

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Indiana General Assembly

The Indiana General Assembly is the state legislature, or legislative branch, of the state of Indiana.

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Indiana House of Representatives

The Indiana House of Representatives is the lower house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the United States state of Indiana.

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Indiana Senate

The Indiana Senate is the upper house of the Indiana General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Indiana.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Isoperimetric inequality

In mathematics, the isoperimetric inequality is a geometric inequality involving the surface area of a set and its volume.

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Jan Gullberg

Jan Gullberg (1936 – 21 May 1998) was a Swedish surgeon and anaesthesiologist, but became known as a writer on popular science and medical topics.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.

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Petr Beckmann

Petr Beckmann (November 13, 1924 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – August 3, 1993 in Boulder, Colorado) was a professor of electrical engineering who became a well-known advocate of libertarianism and nuclear power.

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Pi

The number is a mathematical constant.

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Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.

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Snopes.com

Snopes.com, formally known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is one of the first online fact-checking websites.

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Square

In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, or (100-gradian angles or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle in which two adjacent sides have equal length. A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted.

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Square root

In mathematics, a square root of a number a is a number y such that; in other words, a number y whose square (the result of multiplying the number by itself, or) is a. For example, 4 and −4 are square roots of 16 because.

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Squaring the circle

Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers.

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Suspension of the rules

In parliamentary procedure, suspension of the rules allows a deliberative assembly to set aside its normal rules to do something that it could not do otherwise.

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Table (parliamentary procedure)

In parliamentary procedure, the verb to table has the opposite meaning in different countries.

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The Straight Dope

"The Straight Dope" was an online question-and-answer newspaper column published from 1973 to 2018 in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.

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Truth

Truth is most often used to mean being in accord with fact or reality, or fidelity to an original or standard.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

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