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Waldo serendipitously came across the claimed discovery, and pointed out its mathematical impossibility to the lawmakers.\u00a0 It had only be shown just 15 years before, by the German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann, that it was impossible to square the circle because $\\pi$ is an irrational number.\u00a0 This fodder became ignominiously known as the &#8220;Indiana Pi Bill&#8221; as Goodwin&#8217;s result would force $\\pi = 3.2$.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">In this talk, we review this humorous history of the irrationality of $\\pi$.\u00a0 We introduce a method to compute its digits, present Lindemann&#8217;s proof of its irrationality (following a simplification by Miklos Laczkovich), discuss the relationship with the Hermite-Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem, and explain how Edwin J. Goodwin came to his erroneous conclusion in the first place.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1897, Indiana physician Edwin J. 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