数学符号π (Pi)、Σ(Capital Sigma)、μ (Mu) 、σ(sigma)、∏(capital pi), ∫（Integral Symbol）的来历...

1、π (Pi; periphery/周长)

March 14 marks Pi Day, the holiday commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi), written numerically as 3.141592+. Since mathematic notation is a language that uses symbols from a multitude of alphabets and typefaces, it seems only fitting that this sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet get a little attention.

3月14日是Pi节，这个节日纪念数学常量π (pi)，即在数学上等于3.141592+的数。

The Latin name of the Greek letter π is pi, pronounced pie. The first recorded use of the letter as a mathematical symbol comes from the Welsh mathematician William Jones in a 1706 work called Synopsis Palmariorum in which he abbreviated periphery or its Greek ancestor περιϕέρεια, meaning “circumference,” to π.

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