2020-03-14

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Stand-up Maths

So it turns out that this year π = 3.141591678589793935225

Thanks to Ben Sparks, Deanna Judd, Max Hughes and Zoe Griffiths!

Huge thanks to the National Trust for letting us film at Woolsthorpe Manor and much appreciation to the on-site staff for being endlessly helpful. Next time you are near Grantham, England you can visit Newton's house for yourself: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/woolsthorpe-manor

Thanks as always to Jane Street for being the Stand-up Maths channel principle sponsor. This would not have happened without them. https://www.janestreet.com/

Here is the full working out for the derivation of Newton's expression for Pi, including how to get a general expression for the sum: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jndc4y12f2zhnt4/Derivation%20of%20Newton%27s%20Sum.pdf?dl=0

And here are the full Think Maths teacher resources, that includes this workings out, plus further notes for teachers and a worksheet for students: http://think-maths.co.uk/standupmaths-videos?yt-newton-pi#newton-pi

Ben's method for calculating the square root of three can be seen on the second channel: https://youtu.be/qknGhrmBZvA

Signed copies of much of the working out (one featuring a Parker Square) are available on the Stand-up Maths eBay account. All money goes to charity. https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/standupmaths

SCANS OF ALL WORKING OUT!

Any missing working out is for a term which a school did for us.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0hp70cvchuitamr/Pi-day-2020-scans.zip?dl=0

CORRECTIONS

- Nothing yet. Let me know if you spot anything! (Or find where we went wrong, so very wrong.)

Thanks so much to all the schools who helped out! Names are below. If teachers want to find out about similar projects in the future, sign up here: https://www.think-maths.co.uk/sign-up

St John's-Ravenscourt School Winnipeg, Canada, Teachers: Morgan MacLennan and Lam Nguyen

Varndean College, UK, Teacher: Nicole Cozens

John Taylor High School, UK, Teacher: Simon Curzon

Cals College IJsselstein Netherlands, Teacher: Maarten Van Haaren

Whitgift School, UK, Teacher: Kathryn Coffin, Students: Paul Ajuwon, Mikaeel Toosy, Wei-Shun Fam, Ashwiyn Sekaran, Mr Lau, James Zhang, Artyom Boyorov

South Bromsgrove High School, UK, Teacher: Sue Rowing

King Edward VI Aston School, UK, Teacher: Andrew Russell, Students: Mohammed Ali Awan, Adeel Imam

Leftwich High School UK, Teacher: Sam Webster, Students: Harri Major

George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, UK, Teacher: Gregor Dickson, Students: Judith Morrow, Euan Strachan, Isaac Browning

The Cheney School, Oxford, UK, Teacher: Padma Thealla

Thanks to my Patreon supports who do support these videos and make them possible. Here is a random subset:

Glenn Watson

Neil McGovern

John Lewis

Patrick Stover

James Hall

Kragar

Ron Hochsprung

Jordan Scales

Samuel Ytterbrink

Philippe von Bergen

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Filming and editing by Alex Genn-Bash

Design by Simon Wright

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