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| Mar 7, 2014 at 9:59 | history | edited | Bruno | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed misformatted formula
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| Mar 14, 2010 at 22:34 | comment | added | Gjergji Zaimi | I agree, but sometimes the mystery is not within $\pi$ itself but on the appearance of the circle/rotations. Take for example Johanson's theorem of the artic circle of the Aztec diamond, or the Kerov-Vershik "arcsine-law" which describes the shape of large Young tableaux, $\pi$ only appears in the formulas but the true mystery is why do these certain shapes appear. | |
| Mar 14, 2010 at 21:31 | history | answered | gowers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |