Cinema Science: 'Pi' and the Rapture of Complex Mathematics

While its title already indicates one of its central mathematical topics of concern, Darren Aronofsky's cult paranoid thriller also offers ample prompts for senior secondary students to explore sequences, phenomena such as the golden ratio and Pythagoras' theorem, and more intricate concepts like irrational numbers and recursion, as Dave Crewe outlines.

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