Pi, also titled π, is a 1998 American surrealist psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. It is Aronofsky's directorial debut, and earned him the Directing Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and the Gotham Open Palm Award. The title refers to the mathematical constant pi. Like most of Aronofsky's films, Pi centers on a protagonist whose obsessive pursuit of ideas leads to severely self-destructive behavior. However, the strong psychosexual elements of the director's later work are not present.
Maximillian "Max" Cohen (Sean Gullette), the story's protagonist and unreliable narrator, is a number theorist who believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers. He is capable of doing simple arithmetic calculations involving large numbers in his head. Max also suffers from cluster headaches, as well as extreme paranoia, hallucinations, and social anxiety disorder. Other than Devi (Samia Shoaib), a woman living next door who sometimes speaks to him, Max's only social interaction is with Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), his old mathematics mentor.
The number π ( /paɪ/) is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The constant, sometimes written pi, is approximately equal to 3.14159. It has been represented by the Greek letter "π" since the mid-18th century. π is an irrational number, which means that it cannot be expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers (such as 22/7 or other fractions that are commonly used to approximate π); consequently, its decimal representation never ends and never repeats. It is a transcendental number – a number that cannot be produced with a finite sequence of algebraic operations (powers, sums, and products). The transcendence of π implies that it is impossible to solve the ancient challenge of squaring the circle. The digits in the decimal representation of π appear to be random, although no proof of this supposed randomness has yet been discovered.
For thousands of years, mathematicians have attempted to extend their understanding of π, sometimes by computing its value to a high degree of accuracy. Prior to the 16th century, mathematicians such as Archimedes and Liu Hui used geometrical techniques, based on polygons, to estimate the value of π. Starting in the 16th century, new algorithms based on infinite series revolutionized the computation of π, and were used by mathematicians including Mādhava of Sañgamāgrama, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Sweet and gentle sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of PI
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
3.1415926535 897932
3846 264 338 3279
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
But he must, he must, he must
Put a number to it
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582319749 44 59230781
6406286208 821 4808651 32
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
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na hindi 'ko maintindihan
Nakikipagsapalaran sa buhay
na ang hantungan ay kawalan.
De numero ang galaw ng tao,
bawat gawin ay may presyo
Oh, narito ako sa isang lugar
na hindi ko maintindihan.
Daing ng tao'y 'di pinapansin
nililipad ng hangin
Pagkain sa araw-araw hindi malaman
pa'no pagkakasyahin.
Lalong yumayaman kapag mayaman,
lalong naghihirap kapag mahirap
Oh, narito ako sa isang lugar
na hindi ko maintindihan.
Walang ginagawa
ang mga walang awa
Walang nagagawa kahit pa
ngumawa, magmakaawa,
Bumaha ng mga luha--- haaa!
Bumaha ng mga luha--- haaa!
Narito ako sa isang lugar
ng mga taong tumatakas
Naghahanap ng swerte sa iba
dahil dito'y wala ng bukas.
Kakarampot na sasahurin,
sa sobrang mahal ng mga bilihin
Oh, narito ako sa isang lugar