[Edu-sig] Ramanujan's Pi (an exercise with generator & decimal features)

[kirby urner]

Hey Mark, thanks for sharing this.

A good old fashioned balad about a hero and his achievements, which in
this case still awe those who come across them (if they have any
training).

What a painless way to review the bio of a great man.

As I listened (in a big hotel room, McMenamins' Kingdom), I thought of
many cartoons to go with it, including close-ups of the equations
themselves.

I don't know if Hardy dressed them up in Sigma Notation or what (do
you?), but they're real doozies.  That one for 1/pi I was just
checking, to like a hundred places, using Python's new decimal type...
(earlier this month in this archive).

Your "no ordinary mind" refrain connects me to 'Beautiful Mind'
whereis if you'd said "boy" (this was his mother's realization), I'd
be thinking more of that theme song in Moulin Rouge! (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203009/ ), also appropriate in this
context no?

Kirby

Relevant:
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2005/11/speaking-of-music.html
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2006/01/more-music-millenium-notes.html
http://myspace.com/4dstudios
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=5071745&tstart=0
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2006/09/across-from-blue-nile.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2006-September/006963.html