article_snippet: It's a portal into this magical mysterious world of mathematics,' said University of California Berkeley mathematician and author Edward Frenkel. '
article_snippet: it 'is kind of a basic atomic building block' for math, said Temple University mathematician and author John Paulos, who was interviewed at precisely 3:14:15 p.m.
article_snippet: It's a real exciting moment for math enthusiasm,' said Kaplanpeople .'
article_snippet: Kaplan acknowledged that most people don't really recall math as fun, blaming that on how it's taught: 'There's fun stuff out there in the quantitative world.'
article_snippet: Yet in 1897, a bill before the Indiana legislature tried to round it up to 3.2.
article_snippet: It's not subject to opinion or taste or time,' Frenkel said. '