Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio’s Test

Share this on WhatsApp At least 3,700 years ago, Babylonian mathematicians approximated the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. They inscribed their answer, the first discovered value of pi, on a humble clay tablet: 25/8, or 3.125. Now Carl-Johan Haster, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has managed to do … Continue reading Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio’s Test