For the Love of Pi

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 14, 2014

Edward Frenkel, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, and author of Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (Basic Books, 2013), celebrates Pi Day - it's 3.14 after all. Frenkel explains why the irrational number that goes on and on and on... is beautiful and elegant.

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