Video: The Story of Pi

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Brent

A fun video about \pi, including a nice visual explanation of the formula for the area of a circle, and some interesting places that \pi shows up where you might not expect it to. The video was made by Tom M. Apostol and Jim Blinn as part of Project MATHEMATICS!.

Also, don’t forget to post your discoveries about perfect number factorizations as comments to the previous post!

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5 Responses to Video: The Story of Pi

  1. Pseudonym says:
    November 26, 2007 at 9:24 pm

    Nice to see Jim Blinn’s name there in the credits.

  2. Sol Lederman says:
    November 26, 2007 at 11:49 pm

    Awesome video! Apostol is the one who wrote one of the classic Calculus texts still being used in lots of places. I love it when an accomplished mathematician puts energy into popularizing Math. Hurrah!

  3. Steve Gilberg says:
    November 27, 2007 at 11:18 am

    So that’s how they do it.

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