The Tau Manifesto - With Michael Hartl

The Tau Manifesto is dedicated to one of the most important numbers in mathematics, perhaps the most important: the circle constant relating the circumference of a circle to its linear dimension. Originally published on Tau Day, 2010, it introduced the idea of using τ for the circle constant C/r, which has now become a mathematical and cultural phenomenon. This is a video version of the manifesto and is the result of a collaboration between me and Michael Hartl, the author of The Tau Manifesto. I did the animations, he did most of the writing, and as you can see in the video, we both did the narrating.

Here's a link to the written form of The Tau Manifesto: https://tauday.com/

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Credit for the image of Conway at the beginning goes to Thane Plambeck via Wikimedia commons, under the conditions of the CC BY 2.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....

Sections:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 An Immodest Proposal
02:51 A Powerful Enemy
03:51 The Number Tau
04:46 Circles and Angles
08:32 The Circle Functions
10:16 Euler's Identity
14:09 Circular Area
17:28 Reasons for the Letter
19:00 Ambiguous Notation
22:25 Social Proof