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The Discovery That Transformed Pi
A 19-minute video by Veritasium, on the Mathematics shelf. It came up in r/math, in a thread called “Absolute gorgeous mathematics channel like 3blue1brown”.
Veritasium, Video, 19 min, 2021, on the Mathematics shelf
For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game.







