Links

• A short introduction: mste.illinois.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html

• Wikipedia is OK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon%27s_needle

• You can scroll down to some nice pictures here. mathworld.wolfram.com/BuffonsNeedleProblem.html

• Expermenting at home. www.mathsisfun.com/activity/buffons-needle.html

• Virtual Buffon.
  • www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Buffon/
  • www.math.uah.edu/stat/applets/BuffonNeedleExperiment.html

• Videos
  • www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkXBqBOR6o
  • www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vws1jvMbs64

• Why Pi?: a plausible argument (no trigonometry or calculus) showing why pi occurs.

• buffon.xlsx - a spreadsheet to track running totals.

• Article from the March 2014 American Mathematical Monthly: Pi Day Is Upon Us Again and We Still Do Not Know if Pi Is Normal