Marc Mouries

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General Comments

• August 25, 2007

  Hi, I just could not believe you had a page about PI and Poetry without the most famous ones:
  The first is Near a Raven from Edgar POE:
  
  Near a Raven
  Midnights so dreary, tired and weary.
  Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
  During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
  An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
  "This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".
  [...]
  It goes on and gives 740 digits.
  Another famous one (in France) is the following from an unknown author:
  
  Que j'aime a faire apprendre ce nombre utile aux sages !
  Immortel Archimede, artiste ingenieur,
  Qui de ton jugement peut priser la valeur ?
  Pour moi, ton probleme eut de pareils avantages.
  Jadis, mysterieux, un probleme bloquait
  Tout l'admirable procede, l'?uvre grandiose
  Que Pythagore decouvrit aux anciens Grecs.
  O quadrature ! Vieux tourment du philosophe
  Insoluble rondeur, trop longtemps vous avez
  Defie Pythagore et ses imitateurs.
  [...]
  
  -- (August 25, 2007) on Pi Poetry