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Nathan Gotsch

Nathan Gotsch

Nathan Gotsch was an independent candidate for Congress in Indiana’s 3rd District last fall. A former teacher, he lives in Fort Wayne.

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Pi has an amusing footnote in Indiana history

By: - March 13, 2023

Purdue University mathematics professor Clarence Waldo was only at the Indiana Statehouse to lobby for the school during budget talks in February of 1897. That’s when he happened to witness House Bill 246 – to legally change the value of the number pi to 3.2 – pass its third and final reading in the General […]