Pi or Mathematics?
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Topic: Pi or Mathematics?
Posted By: Harold-The-Barrel
Subject: Pi or Mathematics?
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 11:56
Which song about mathematics do you prefer? Personally i thought i'd never hear another mathematical song other than Bush's Pi but then along comes VdGG with the awesome Mathematics, at the moment it gets my vote Are there other songs on the subject, i can't think of any at the moment?  ------------- You must be joking.....Take a running jump...... |
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Posted By: Lynx33
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 14:02
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the band Dysrhythmia: every album every song all about mathematics ------------- Mindez elmúlt. Ma már tudom köszönteni a szépséget. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 14:07
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At least title-wise, the immediate one to spring to my mind is Laurie Anderson's Let x=x. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 14:59
Lady holds the precedence. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 15:23
Ink Mathematics . . . assuming it's about mathematics. 
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Posted By: petraman
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 15:28
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For about three days after first hearing Grounding by Numbers I was trying to figure out the relation between e, i and pi. I'm not a math major, so I'm probably missing some sort of relation, but I never thought those three terms were related at all... Mathematics is a great song, though. I would say it's a bit nerdier than Pi so that gets my vote (if I could vote, lol)
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Posted By: ProgBob
Date Posted: April 14 2011 at 15:46
It's actually a special case of a more general formula: e^(i*theta) = cos theta + i * sin theta Where I am using ^ to mean 'to the power of'. If you put theta equal to pi in this then, because cos pi = -1 and sin pi = 0, you get the special case of 'Euler's identity' which is the formula in the song (and, coincidentally, as it pre-dates the VDGG song, in my avatar). ------------- Bob |
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