Pi Song Lyrics

It's never too soon to start looking ahead to Pi Day 2011. I'm trying to reword Elton John's "Your Song" to make it more pi-centric, but haven't gotten very far. Suggest a line or several, and your name may end up in the credits in the next music video!

It's a little bit funny this feeling inside
It's a little bit funny, this number called pi

I'm not one of those who can easily hide

I don't have much money but boy if I did

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

If I was a sculptor, but then again, no

Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show

I know it's not much but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is while you're in the world

I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss

Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross

But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song

It's for people like you that keep it turned on

So excuse me forgetting but these things I do

You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue

Anyway the thing is what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

"Warrior mathematicians"?

Sure, there's the story of Archimedes using the power of the parabolic mirror to burn up Roman warships.  But for the most part, mathematicians have been non-warriors, interested more in uncovering beauty and truth for its own sake, rather than in crushing enemies or hearing the lamentation of women.  Today NPR reported on the way network analysis is being used to locate key players in terrorist networks in order to reduce the number of IEDs:

U.S. 'Connects The Dots' To Catch Roadside Bombers : NPR