Grant Sanderson, from 3blue1brown, returns with a remarkable video—this time showing that, sometimes, the parts of math that we think we know are hiding so much more. In this case, he shows that pi—yes, the 3.14-and-so-and-so that you know—can hide in the strangest of places.
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