http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/~ball/

http://www.johnnyball.co.uk/AboutJBpage.htm

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stevepa

What a fabulous series that was. My fave memory is the experiment where the audience threw sticks onto the stage and he counted the number that were touching one of the stick-length-apart parallel lines drawn thereon, and the number that weren't, and related them very simply to pi.

I think the ratio of touching to not was 1:pi.

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Although I think he'd certainly do a good job of promoting mathematics.
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jht

Hopefully that'll be clear when I actually read the paper.

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