The bulb is an archaic term for the medulla oblongata and in modern clinical usage the word bulbar (as in bulbar palsy) is retained for terms that relate to the medulla oblongata, particularly in reference to medical conditions.
Pi is transcendental. The endless number cannot be expressed by any algebraic equation. No pattern has been found in its digits, Yet it cannot be proven in a finite amount of time. That no pattern exists in an infinite number of digits. Pi goes beyond our reality.
Transcendentalism was a literary and political movement in the United States that flourished from the mid-1830s to the late 1850s in eastern Massachusetts. The publication of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Nature in 1836 is often taken to be the moment when Transcendentalism became a major cultural movement.