Pi (trailer)

http://www.pithemovie.com/
π (also known as Pi or Pi — Faith in Chaos) is a 1998 black and white American psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky, who won the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Gotham Open Palm Award. This film was the first feature film directed by Darren Aronofsky. The title refers to the mathematical constant π (pi).

Sean Gullette - (Max Cohen)
Mark Margolis - (Sol Robeson)
Ben Shenkman - (Lenny Meyer)
Pamela Hart - (Marcy Dawson)
Stephen Pearlman - (Rabbi Cohen)
Samia Shoaib - (Devi)

Production Credits:
Matthew J. Libatique (Cinematographer)
Scott Vogel (Co-producer)
Clint Mansell (Composer (Music Score)
Darren Aronofsky (Director)
Oren Sach (Editor)
Randy Simon (Executive Producer)
Eric Watson (Producer)
Matthew Marraffi (Production Designer)
Darren Aronofsky (Screenwriter)
Ken Ishii (Sound Recordist)

PI explained:
Pi or π is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space; this is the same value as the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its radius. It is approximately equal to 3.14159 in the usual decimal notation (see the table for its representation in some other bases). π is one of the most important mathematical and physical constants: many formulae from mathematics, science, and engineering involve π.

π is an irrational number, which means that its value cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction m/n, where m and n are integers. Consequently, its decimal representation never ends or repeats. It is also a transcendental number, which means that no finite sequence of algebraic operations on integers (powers, roots, sums, etc.) can be equal to its value; proving this was a late achievement in mathematical history and a significant result of 19th century German mathematics. Throughout the history of mathematics, there has been much effort to determine π more accurately and to understand its nature; fascination with the number has even carried over into non-mathematical culture.

The Greek letter π, often spelled out pi in text, was adopted for the number from the Greek word for perimeter "περίμετρος", first by William Jones in 1707, and popularized by Leonhard Euler in 1737. The constant is occasionally also referred to as the circular constant, Archimedes' constant (not to be confused with an Archimedes number), or Ludolph's number (from a German mathematician whose efforts to calculate more of its digits became famous).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

Related:
The Chudnovsky brothers (both born in Kiev; David in 1947; Gregory in 1952) are mathematicians known for their wide mathematical ability, their home-built supercomputers, and their close working relationship. So close, in fact, that they refer to themselves as a single mathematician who happens to occupy two bodies.[1] A 1992 article in The New Yorker quoted the opinion of several mathematicians that Gregory Chudnovsky is one of the world's best living mathematicians. David Chudnovsky works closely with and assists his brother Gregory, who suffers from myasthenia gravis.

The Chudnovsky brothers have held records, at different times, for computing π to the largest number of places, including two billion digits in the early 1990s on a supercomputer they built (dubbed "m-zero") in their apartment in Manhattan. In 1987, the Chudnovsky brothers developed the algorithm (now called the Chudnovsky algorithm) that they used to break several π computation records. Today, this algorithm is used by Mathematica to calculate π.

The brothers also assisted the Metropolitan Museum of Art around 2003 in the merging of a series of digital photographs taken of The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries during their cleaning.[2] PBS aired a program on its science show NOVA, hosted by Robert Krulwich, that described the difficulties in photographing the tapestries and the math used to fix them.

The brothers are currently Distinguished Industry Professors at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

Gregory was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant") in 1981.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_brothers

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[dominickkk5]

That isn't what the movie is about.  You think it's terrible because you don't understand it.

[Phantompain7]

i love this movie

[Stabosavros]

πππππππππππππππ

[emangamer1]

I hate to say it but the pi in the movie is lowercase pi. The pi in the description is captial.

[Dimitri1105]

@anyonecan12345 ur a fag this movie means some thing to the world its deeper meaning is unknown to u because your mind is still in a allusive state when you open ur eyes u will understand and u dont have courage u see the world in a blurred view when the rest of us see whats right there

[pedro898]

This isn't a simple movie, you really need to be able to engage your mind whilst viewing to enjoy it.

I must have seen it a dozen times now and I still love it.

[anyonecan12345]

this movie was terrible. lousy concept also. a magoc number that destroys the world?

[sweinundhundherz]

Well now, I wouldn't say that. Try watching things when you aren't forced, it may work better for you then.