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 [Comment permalink]
[...] 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 [Comment permalink]
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 [Comment permalink]
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 [Comment permalink]
the videos are no longer available, please post alternatives?
9 Apr 2008 at 8:07 pm [Comment permalink]
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 [Comment permalink]
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 [Comment permalink]
Oops – sorry about that, deathendz. I should have a warning about it…
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