Folk Songs About Mathematics and Pi

Pi day is March 14th, like in 3.14. Festivities peak at 1:59pm (3.14159). March 14th is also Albert Einstein's birthday. See also pie.

The Pi Song (sung to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree")
Oh Number pi, oh number pi, Your digits are unending. Oh number pi, oh number pi, No pattern are you sending. You're three point one four one five nine And even more if we had time.
Tom Lehrer\ New Math Tom Lehrer\ That's Mathematics Hard 'N Phirm\ Pi\ Horses and Grasses Women singing the digits of pi The Pi Song-The Derivatives Lucy Kaplansky performs a song that her mathematician father Irving Kaplansky wrote called "A Song About Pi," but unfortunately I don't think she's released any studio or live versions. Alfred Packer Memorial String Band - Pi - VA/Oasis Acoustic v. VI Zeke Hoskin - Pi Day - forthcoming CD [Einstein] Henry Jankiewicz - Einstein the Genius (covered by Shanghaied on the Willamette, North Fork, Cranberry Lake Jug Band, North Fork, etc.) Counting Crows - Einstein on the Beach Berkley Hart - Elvis Einstein Nathan Caswell - Einstein's Brain Celibacy - Einstein's Little Homunculus (also Fahey's Julia Delaney) Pierce Pettis - Einstein's Pencil - Singer-Songwriter Heaven: the Songs of Kevin Flaherty (VA) Deborah Holland / Theory of Relativity / Bad Girl Once / Rage On

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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