This blog has been named after an ancient and elusive mathematical concept called the Levinian Constant. Like Pi or e, the Levinian Constant is a real number whose value is calculated at somewhere between 3 and 4. Say 3.61238 or so. Scholars aren’t sure. Its application ranges from number theory to calculus and some have even applied it to the elusive search for the Higgs boson. While Pi has a certain gravitas, the Levinian Constant has always been dubbed the most “playful” of the constants, and was even the subject of more than one practical joke played by Daniel Bernoulli on his friend Leonhard Euler. To this day, scholars, mathematicians, historians and poets maintain an around-the-clock spiritual and philosophical debate about just what the Levinian Constant defines and how it is best applied to the physical, and spiritual, realm.
Or perhaps it was all just a fictitious number created by a college math minor who fancied naming something after himself. See also: the Levinian Formation.
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