On 3/14/15 I'll be in Princeton celebrating -- my beloved hometown goes all-out for Pi Day since it's also the birthday or our most famous resident, Albert Einstein. But on Sunday, I'm going to extend the celebration with a pi-themed movie marathon! I thought I'd share my picks here in case you'd like to join me in my possibly-pathetic devotion to this mathematical holiday!
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Here are some alternate picks in case you don't have access to these movies (also, you can use one of the other options for 5 and 3 if you want to do 10 digits of pi instead of 8, but that'll make for an even longer marathon)
1: One More Tomorrow, One Foot in Heaven, And One Was Beautiful, One Man's Journey, One Sunday Afternoon
2: The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Between Two Worlds, A Tale of Two Cities, Breakfast for Two, Trouble for Two, Two Women, Two for the Road
3: The Three Faces of Eve, A Letter to Three Wives, Sergeants 3, Three Godfathers, Three Comrades, These Three
4: Four Men & A Prayer, Four Wives, Four Mothers, Four's A Crowd
5: Five Star Final, Five Fingers, Five Miles to Midnight, Five Graves to Cairo, Five Came Back
6: My Six Convicts, With Six You Get Eggroll, The Deep Six, Six of a Kind
9: The Man With Nine Lives, Nine Girls
Happy Pi Day! :)
3 comments:
This is so clever Kate! I know you love Pi Day and I think it's a great idea to put together a movie marathon celebrating the sequence of numbers.
Thank you so much! :D
THE GREATEST IDEA OF ALL TIME!
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