{"id":111223,"date":"2022-04-08T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111223"},"modified":"2022-04-08T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T16:38:10","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-my-humblest-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111223","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae My Humblest Apologies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111223\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111223\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111224 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2252a28f-3470-443c-adb2-b08deea71be0-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2252a28f-3470-443c-adb2-b08deea71be0-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2252a28f-3470-443c-adb2-b08deea71be0.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hang my head in shame.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot believe that I forgot.<\/p>\n<p>It was an important day of recognition. And I let it pass me by without a celebratory cake or even an entire chocolate bar.<\/p>\n<p>I even let my circular slide rule lay in a dusty place, forgotten and unused. It is such a beautiful and useful circle.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Where would any circle be without \u03c0?<br \/>\nHow could we find its area? Its circumference?<br \/>\nIndeed, Pi is integral to mathematics.<br \/>\nAnd yet, March 14 passed, Pi Day, and I forgot!!<\/p>\n<p>In these tumultuous times, it is important to recognize useful and beautiful entities that remain constant. And Pi, the elegant symbol that represents the mathematical ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is consistent, timeless and infinite.<\/p>\n<p>3.14159 continues beyond its decimal point and has been calculated to more than fifty trillion digits, thanks to computers.<\/p>\n<p>You are often referred to as Archimedes\u2019 Constant. Before Archimedes, you were just a mere infant, an estimation. But he was the first mathematician to actually use a calculation to ascertain your value. He used an application of Euclid\u2019s to calculate polygons circumscribed onto a circle. Around 250 B.C.E., he inscribed a polygon within a circle. Then he drew another one outside of the circle, and he kept on drawing more and more until the sides of the polygons were close to the shape of a circle.<\/p>\n<p>(This is termed, The Method of Exhaustion. It was used by many Greek mathematicians as a proof of their results; likely the earliest use of Integral<\/p>\n<p>Calculus. Although today, we would work this out using limits)<br \/>\nAlthough infinite and constant, Pi, you remain an enigma. Where did you come from? And if you, my friend, Pi are the number of diameter lengths that run around a circle\u2026.how can you be infinite?<\/p>\n<p>I am aware that you are irrational because you are not equal to the ratio of any two whole numbers. There is no simple fraction that is equal to Pi.<\/p>\n<p>Because you are an irrational number, your expression is infinite; after your decimal point, your integers go on endlessly, forever and ever and ever.<\/p>\n<p>From this day forward, I shall remember that March 14, 3\/14\/XX, was perfectly chosen to celebrate Pi.<\/p>\n<p>Infinite, yet constant. March 14 is now engraved upon my calendars: written onto a roll of papyrus, hammered into one of my stone tablets and typed into my computer.<\/p>\n<p>I shall not forget you again, my elegant friend.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman, is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist I hang my head in shame. I cannot believe that I forgot. It was an important day of recognition. And I let it pass me by without a celebratory cake or even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28534],"class_list":["post-111223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-doctor-curmudgeon-my-humblest-apologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111223"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}