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EPISODE · Sep 25, 2024 · 17 MIN

What's the Big Deal about Pi?

from The Art of Mathematics · host Carol Jacoby

Alon Amit joins us on the antipode of Pi Day to counter the myths and mysteries of this most famous irrational number. There's nothing magical about a non-repeating string of digits. The real and profound mystery is the ubiquity of pi. It shows up in places that have nothing to do with circles, such as the sum of the reciprocals of the squares of the integers and the normal bell-shaped curve.

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