Friday math movie – Pi Day

14 Mar 2008 · Posted in Math movies, Mathematics 

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).

Comments

7 Responses to “Friday math movie – Pi Day”

  1. It’s pi day! » Fun Math Blog on March 15th, 2008 3:07 am

    [...] 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 [...]

  2. vlorbik on March 20th, 2008 10:39 pm

    my review of PI (1998)
    (shrink the browser’s window to the size
    of a single column for easy reading).

  3. zac on March 21st, 2008 8:21 am

    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…

  4. sindhu on April 9th, 2008 6:00 pm

    the videos are no longer available, please post alternatives?

  5. zac on April 9th, 2008 8:07 pm

    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 ^_^ ]

  6. deathendz on April 14th, 2008 5:17 pm

    omg there is vulgarities in there…. this is supposed to be an educational website im only 12 i was not supposed to hear that

  7. zac on April 15th, 2008 6:15 pm

    Oops – sorry about that, deathendz. I should have a warning about it…

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