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Films

Pi and the Movie Mind

A number of recent films deal with mathematics and mathematicians. Can we learn something from them or are they misleading? Peter Stone investigates.

Consider the number pi (π), 3.1415... This number, which equals the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, has interested philosophers since the days of Pythagoras.

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