Around 250 B.C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes calculated the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. A precise determination of pi, as we know this ratio today, had long been of ...
Archimedes determined the upper and lower range of pi by finding the perimeters of inscribed and circumscribed polygons. By doubling the number of sides of the hexagon to a 12-sided polygon, then ...
Jinlin Wei is an Assistant Professor at the Social Science Division at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Economics and an MRes in Economics from the Department of E ...