James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Quote

The value of [pi] has engaged the attention of many mathematicians and calculators from the time of Archimedes to the present day, and has been computed from so many different formulae, that a complete account of its calculation would almost amount to a history of mathematics.

In: William Dunham, The Genius of Euler: Reflections on His Life and Work, On the History of Euler's Constant (p. 147)