What is the History of phi?

Question

Maths

Answer 1

Try
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Answer 2

A Sloka in the 10th book of Rig Veda appears to be written
for praising Lord Indra. The technical translation of that
Sloka gives the value of pi up to 28 digits accurately.
The Vedas are now agreed to be 10000 years old.

Who invented numbers? The Indians. The
ancient Romans did not know the number zero. Ancient
Indians knew very large numbers like Mahogham (1 followed
by 62 zeros) and the corresponding smaller decimal
fractions.

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Answer 3

It was studied by the Ancient Greeks, but they called it "extreme and mean ratio". It was only given the name Phi recently (19th century). All the theories about it giving the "most pleasing" shape are a load of hogwash that was thought up in the 19th century and early 20th century. My own experiments show that the Golden Rectangle is too short to be the ideal rectangle. Most people prefer one that is longer.

Answer 4

recall that 3.14 is an approx. value of phi. the abve fact of phi
has given rise to some intresting activities. In september 1999,Dr
Kanada of the university of tokoyo calculated 206,158,430,000decimal digits of phi.In september 2002, his team broke a world record in calculating 1.2411 trillion digits.This is really great.

Answer 5

If Vedas are True, so Pi was found few thousand years ago..

Ramanujan found an equation to approximate 1/Pi.

Answer 6

A good discussion at :
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html

Answer 7

http://people.bath.ac.uk/jaj21/phihistory.html

Answer 8

2.31...............
more like a mathematician that couldn't answer a question and just came up with a number