#robertkaplan

This slippery number which keeps evading us is one which we keep pursuing... This reminds me so much of the beginning of Proust's great "Remembrance of Things Past" where Swann sees his beloved Odette disappearing in the crowd. And he follows her, he pursues her, and she continually evades him, and leads him on and leads Proust on to writing his great novel. That's Pi. Pi is our Odette. Leading us on this chase. Through the crowd of numbers, through the crowd of phenomena, hoping to capture that elusive ratio, that elusive number which describes to us what rotation, what circles mean.