Ï€ is so pervasive in mathematics that there are many formulae in many different areas of mathematics as well as physics.
Here are some of them:
Area of circle: π*r2 where r is the radius of the circle.
Surface of sphere: 4*Ï€*r2
Volume of sphere: 4/3*Ï€*r3
sin(k*Ï€) = 0 for all integers k.
Here are some less common but intriguing ones:
Leibniz Formula: π/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 ...
Wallis Product: π/2 = 2/1 * 2/3 * 4/3 * 4/5 *
where the numerators go 2,2,4,4,6,6,8,8, ...
and the denominators go 1,3,3,5,5,7,7,9 ...
and finally, my favourite:
Euler's Identity: eiπ + 1 = 0 which, in 7 symbols, contains the two most important number in basic mathematics: 0 and 1; the two most important transcendental numbers e and π, and the basis of the complex field: i (the imaginary square root of -1).
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Area of a circle: pi*radius^2 Circumference of a circle: 2*pi*radius or diameter*pi Surface area of a sphere: 4*pi*radius^2
Area of a circle: pi*radius2 Circumference of a circle: 2*pi*radius or diamerer*pi Surface area of a sphere: 4*pi*radius2 Volume of a sphere: 4/3*pi*radius3 Volume of a cylinder: pi*radius2*height
There are thousands of formulae which use pi:Circumference of circle = 2*pi*radiusArea of circle = pi*r^2Area of ellipse = pi*semiaxis1*semiaxis2Surface area of sphere = 4*pi*r^2Volume of sphere = 4/3*pi*r^3pi also appears in some of the most common statistical distributions: the Gaussian (or Normal) as well as Student's t-distribution.
Area of a circle: pi*radius^2 Circumference of a circle: 2*pi*radius or diameter*pi Volume of a sphere: 4/3*pi*radius^3 Surface area of a sphere: 4*pi*radius^2