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Life of Pi
The riot of flowers is incessant.
[Page 16, Life of Pi]
Here I am reading aloud a little paragraph out of 'life of Pi' that made my day a colorful sky, since it painted many unusual shades in my mind just after searching in Google images for those unheard flowers I cam across in 'Life of Pi'!
You must imagine a hot and humid place, bathed in sunshine and bright colors. The riot of flowers is incessant. There are trees, shrubs, and climbing plants in profusion-Peepuls, Gulmohurs, flames of the forest, red silk cottons, jacarandas, mangoes, jackfruits and many others that would remain unknown to you if they didn’t have neat labels at their feet. There are benches. On these benches you see men sleeping, stretched out, or couples sitting, young couples, who steal glances at each other shyly and whose hands flutter in the air, happening to touch.
Again I want to picturise this scenery of Profusion: The property of being extremely abundant, flowers.
Peepuls: Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
Jacarandas: An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
Gulmohurs: Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant from the Fabaceae family, noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of flowers. Often grown as an ornamental tree and given the name Royal Poinciana or Flamboyant, it is also known as Gulmohar (Hindi and Urdu), KrishnachuRa (Bengali), Malinche, and Tabachine[1], and one of several named the Flame tree. The species was previously placed in a genus Poinciana, named for Phillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy who is credited with introducing the plant to the Americas.
If I say the true reason behind buying this book ,Life of Pi, was to read about the diachronic/historic evolution or the history of Pi which is denoting the Greek letter [symbol here; oops, i cant insert it here!], the mathematical constant and so and so. Because that was the time I was crazy to read about the history of mathematics and many other relative disciplines of mathematics.
Suddenly I saw this book very near to the shelves of science and mathematics at the Book World –Kinokuniya at Dubai Mall. So I suddenly grab it with The Last Theorem
, hence now I am reading about an Indian who came across lot of swimming, oh it isn’t bad though this involves a tiger too. I want to finish this as soon as possible to write something about Life of Pi.
Yes, Amidst: In the middle of reading of a book, will make me so intense feeling of words and colors.
too. If you want to see Pi, then be prepared to get a headache of numbers! For sure it is a psychological thriller merged with number theories that got life with a supercomputer and human called here in the movie as Max Cohen. So have some “Believing that the number and the headaches are linked, Max tries to concentrate on the number through the pain” kind of experience! Never mind, movie doesn’t do any good with mathematics, believe me! ;)
Anyway do you know how 'Pizza' got its name?
Pizza is cylinder but it’s a flat cylinder. Lets follow usual notation of geometry and find the volume of such thick cylinder having a radius of z and height of a.
Volume =pi*radius squared*height
Volume of Pizza=pi*z*z*a=pizza so it’s mathematical!
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