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Title: Math v religion, the life of Pi
Review: I'm probably really stretching things but I find it hard to believe that Martel would write a whole book and title it The Life of Pi without giving a thought to mathematics. To my mind, Pi's 227 days on the raft (227 is a prime number) represents a struggle to find meaning in religion. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter - and so it is with the life of this boy looking to the world for the meaning of life. In the end, you believe what you want to believe (just as you do with religion) but your life experience, culture, indoctrination, even your language is what shapes your thinking. Ultimately, mathematics can offer far more inarguable constructs to explain our universe than can religion.
