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In honor of Pi Day, please check out the clip below the jump. Lucy Kaplansky is one of my favorite current-day folk singers. I have seen her perform numerous times. Her father was a mathematician, and he wrote “a song about Pi”, where the notes correspond to the starting digits of the eternal Pi. I have seen Kaplansky perform this, and it was a funny moment: I saw her perform at Maxwell’s once, in Hoboken, and someone requested “Song About Pi”, and she was so touched, it took her so aback – this is not a song she has ever recorded, but over the years it has become a fan favorite. Also, the fact that her father (a man she obviously loved very much) wrote it.
So, in honor of Pi Day, here is Lucy Kaplansky singing her dad’s song “Song About Pi”. So glad it was on Youtube. The second I saw it was Pi Day, I thought of Lucy Kaplansky and her father.
In honor of pi day, I shall eat a pie at the House of Pi here in Houston, TX.
Happy Pi Day!
and a happy Pi Day to you too!
I’m also a Lucy Kaplansky fan, but have never heard this song since, sadly, I’ve never seen her live. Thanks so much for posting this!
Kate Bush also celebrated Pi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSHr5E7fZY
Makes sense…. March 14, 3.14. And in five years we get 3.14.15, the first five digits; if you prefer rounding properly, then wait a year and you get 3.14.16. If they did goofy things like this in the sixteenth century there’s 3.14.1592… I rather hope someone goofy did do that back then.
There’s a song from the Cowboy Bebop movie (2003) where the characted Ed recites pi at the end, out to thirty or so decimals.