Piece of Pi
Isn't today International Pi Day?
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 2:48 PM
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Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
4 Comments:
Pi-firmative. Happy Pi Day.
I used to have pi memorized to several digits (beyond the following): 3.1415926535897946264. But nobody ever referred to pi in a way that would give me a chance to impress.
Jeffery Hodges
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I only ever memorized what my old Texas Instruments calculator showed me, which was a rounded-up figure: 3.1415927.
Well, yours ended on the perfect number "7," so all was well.
Jeffery Hodges
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