...and continuing updates
Why ?
 
"The story of pi reflects the most seminal, the most serious and sometimes the silliest aspects of mathematics. A surprising amount of the most important mathematics and a significant number of the most important mathematicians have contributed to its unfolding -- directly or otherwise.
 
Pi is one of the few concepts in mathematics whose mention evokes a response of recognition and interest in those not concerned professionally with the subject. It has been a part of human culture and the educated imagination for more than twenty five hundred years.

The computation of Pi is virtually the only topic from the most ancient stratum of mathematics that is still of serious interest to modern mathematical research. And to pursue this topic as it developed throughout the millennia is to follow a thread through the history of mathematics that winds through geometry, analysis and special functions, numerical analysis, algebra and number theory. It offers a subject which provides mathematicians with examples of many current mathematical techniques as well as a palpable sense of their historical development."

The above passage is taken from the introduction to "Pi : A Source Book" by L. Berggren, J. Borwein and P. Borwein. It is a large collection of papers on pi and will appear with Springer-Verlag sometime in 1997. Much additional material is available in the 1986 Wiley volume "Pi and the AGM" by J. Borwein and P. Borwein.

Pi Story the history of the computation of Pi
Pi Records current records of computation
Pi People people involved in the computation of Pi in recent years
Pi Literature
How to Compute 1 Billion Digits of Pi
How to Compute the 100 Billionth Binary Digit of Pi
Pi and the AGM
The Quest for Pi
Recognizing a Number
Experimental Pi
Pi News
Here at SFU
Science News
Globe and Mail
21 years ago
Pi Aesthetics
Pi Art
Pi Formulas
Pi on the net
Bailey on Pi
From Number to Formula
The Miraculous Pi
The Passion for Pi
A Question of Numbers
Pi Files
Pi and other numbers : The ISC
More Links to other Pi-Enriched sites
Questions, Comments, and/or Suggestions? Write to:
pi@cecm.sfu.ca