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Sunday, April 04, 2010
Rectangling the Circle
In Steve Strogatz's latest article in The New York Times, he discusses limits and presents a nice proof that the area of a circle is π*r^2, where r is the radius of the circle. (The proof that I saw in calculus was with an integral, but this one in Strogatz's article is much more clever and insightful.)
Labels:
applied mathematics,
articles,
calculus,
circles,
limits,
mathematicians,
numbers
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