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| 2 THE STORY OF PI | |||||||||||||
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| DIRECTOR | AWARDS | ||||||||||||
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Gold Apple, 1990 National Educational Film and Video Festival, Oakland
Red Ribbon, 1990 American Film and Video Festival, Chicago |
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| Tom M. Apostol | |||||||||||||
| PRODUCER | |||||||||||||
| Tom M. Apostol | |||||||||||||
| FURTHER INFORMATION | |||||||||||||
| www.projmath.caltech.edu | |||||||||||||
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Computer Animation - James F. Blinn
Associate Producer - Joe Corrigan Narrator - Al Hibbs |
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| CONTACT | |||||||||||||
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Tom M. Apostol
Project MATHEMATICS! 305 South Hill Avenue Pasadena, CA 91106, USA Tel: +1.626.395.3759
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| SUMMARY | |||||||||||||
| Although pi is the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle, it appears in many formulas that have nothing to do with circles. Animated sequences dissect a circular disk of radius r and transform it to a rectangle of base pi *r and altitude r. Animation shows how Archimedes estimated p using perimeters of approximating polygons. | |||||||||||||