Poesie mathématique
by Jean-Claude Babois, France

exhibit Nr.662

Description: It's a mathematical formula to find π=3,1415.... It's equivalent to a formula found by the mathematician John Wallis in 1655 dans the book 'Arithmetica Infinitorum'.

Comments/Origin: Jean-Claude Babois, professor of mathematics now retired, has found it on the 4th of December 2006, in relation with the coefficients of the binome of Newton.

[A few mathematical explanations included]

entered the Museum of Temporary Art on: 10.02.2007