Friday math movie – Pi Day
To celebrate Pi Day, this week we have some clips from the 1998 movie “Pi“.
Pi Day is on March 14th, since the date (3/14) is reminiscent of the first 3 digits of the number pi. Here’s pi to 15 decimal places:
3.141 592 653 589 793…
On with the movie.
Pi (Trailer)
An overview of the movie:
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Pi (Math is Everywhere)
Numerology is important in most religions. In this clip, we see how numbers are used through Jewish scripture:
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Pi Mathematics
I like the stark black-and-white nature of this brooding music clip:
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For some background on the movie, see pithemovie.com. The site has some more clips (in low-tech MOV format).
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15 Mar 2008 at 3:07 am Link to this comment
[...] at SquareCircleZ, has TWO posts relevant to Pi Day, one with some clips from the 1998 movie, Pi, and some Math tips in today’s IntMath [...]
20 Mar 2008 at 10:39 pm Link to this comment
my review of PI (1998)
(shrink the browser’s window to the size
of a single column for easy reading).
21 Mar 2008 at 8:21 am Link to this comment
Thanks for the enlightening review of Pi, Vlorbik. You made an good point about the relative costs of movie making.
There is something insane about making mega-blockbusters that cost mega-bucks, especially when we have mega real problems that could be easily solved with those mega-bucks…
9 Apr 2008 at 6:00 pm Link to this comment
the videos are no longer available, please post alternatives?
9 Apr 2008 at 8:07 pm Link to this comment
Hello Sindhu
I just tried all 3 movies on this page just now and they are all working fine for me.
Anyone else having trouble?
And Sindhu, thanks for the mention of squareCircleZ on your “blag”!
[Actually, you can recite lots of digits of pi, if you really want to ^_^ ]
14 Apr 2008 at 5:17 pm Link to this comment
omg there is vulgarities in there…. this is supposed to be an educational website im only 12 i was not supposed to hear that
15 Apr 2008 at 6:15 pm Link to this comment
Oops – sorry about that, deathendz. I should have a warning about it…