About Project Pi

Why Project Pi

This project started from as an attempt to motivate computer science students to „get dirty“ with numerical methods and mathematical modeling. The problems are simply formulated and do not suggest the way to solve the problem. The students are free to invent their own methods and use bad methods. The experience might led them to appreciate more the design of well established numerical methods.

The name

The project is named after one of the most known mathematical constants $\pi\approx 3.1415\ldots$ that is the area of the unit circle.

Inspiration

This project was inspired by Project Euler and Hundred dollar, hundred digit challenge.