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Euler's crazy pi formula generator

Today we derive them all, the most famous infinite pi formulas: The Leibniz-Madhava formula for pi, John Wallis's infinite product formula, Lord Brounckner's infinite fraction formula, Euler's Basel formula and it's infinitely many cousins. And we do this starting with one of Euler's crazy strokes of genius, his infinite product formula for the sine function. This video was inspired by Paul Levrie's one-page article Euler's wonderful insight which appeared in the Mathematical Intelligencer in 2012. Stop the video at the right spot and zoom in and have a close look at this article. Very pretty.

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  • Originally Aired May 2, 2020
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Production Code WL_Yzbo1ha4
  • Network YouTube
  • Created May 4, 2020 by
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