Sunday, March 1, 2015

Preparing for Pi Day - Resources

3/01/2015

Piphilology: Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant "pi".  The word is a play on the word "pi" itself and of the linguistic field of philology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Pi World Ranking Lists:
http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/

Pi Word Play from Wolfram Mathworld:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiWordplay.html

Pilish: Pilish is a style of constrained writing in which the lengths of consecutive words match the consecutive digits of the number pi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilish

Writing in Pilish.
http://www.cadaeic.net/pilish.htm

Pi Day Carols
http://www.teachpi.org/music/pi-day-carols/

Pi Day Songs
http://mathforum.org/te/exchange/hosted/morehouse/songs.pi.html

15 Songs that Mention Pi(e).
http://popdust.com/2013/03/14/songs-that-mention-about-pie-for-pi-day/

Happy Pi Day: 10 YouTube Videos for Math Geeks
http://mashable.com/2013/03/14/pi-day-videos/

Pi Day Videos
http://www.piday.org/topics/videos/

Vi Hart's Song about Tau (2 times pi):
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/recreational-math/vi-hart/pi-tau/v/a-song-about-a-circle-constant

Lucy Kaplansky's Song about Pi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJkwlnN7VII

The Joy of Pi, Pi Facts, Pi Links:
http://www.joyofpi.com/

Youtube has a ton of videos with songs about pi.  Mathematical Pi, Pi-namite, Pi Day Theme Song, etc.
www.youtube.com

A personal challenge to math music nerds and geeks.  I would like to see a song about Pi that is sung to the tune of "This is the song that never ends".

Good Hunting!



David

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