[VA] SRC #009 - Pi Day 2021 Special

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(03-14-2021 07:00 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  All your comments are welcome and appreciated

No solution to your challenges, just comments...

(03-14-2021 07:00 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  e.   \(\pi\) also features in a song by Kate Bush ...

Yes, wonderful, isn't it. What an artist. Seeing and hearing her perform live is one of the top ten items in my bucket list. Unfortunately, at her rate of playing one concert every decade or so, this is probably not going to happen. Not long ago I stumbled across the Wikipedia entry about her song "Cloudbusting" which has a very interesting scientific (or pseudo- or para- scientific) background.

And regarding Pi and Pi day, my favorite science explainer on Wikipedia (not by coincidence his ph.d thesis is "Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education") just today realeased a video for the mathematically illiterates (like myself) about how Isaac Newton revolutionsnised the way Pi is calculated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlf1ELvRzc

Regards
Max