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The Babylonians began it, the Greeks measured the Earth with it and in the Middle Ages, men were burned for even mentioning it. In all civilizations, it's had horrendous ups and downs, depending on whether science was seen as Progress to be encouraged--or as Sin to be rooted out! Yet it doesn't seem so radical. You look at a circle. You see that the 'around' (circumference) depends on the 'across' (diameter). And no matter how big the circle, the ratio between these two is always the same. That's Pi! But the history of Pi, (i.e. the history of maths), is a mirror of the history of Man. And this breezy book gives you the whole fascinating story, from the first Stone Age tally stick to the latest 'intelligent'
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The Babylonians began it, the Greeks measured the Earth with it and in the Middle Ages, men were burned for even mentioning it. In all civilizations, it's had horrendous ups and downs, depending on whether science was seen as Progress to be encouraged--or as Sin to be rooted out! Yet it doesn't seem so radical. You look at a circle. You see that the 'around' (circumference) depends on the 'across' (diameter). And no matter how big the circle, the ratio between these two is always the same. That's Pi! But the history of Pi, (i.e. the history of maths), is a mirror of the history of Man. And this breezy book gives you the whole fascinating story, from the first Stone Age tally stick to the latest 'intelligent' computers...with all the thinkers, builders, navigators, martyrs and madmen along the way. Even if simple sums make you cross-eyed, this is one math book that will charm you from cover to cover, by a man who is an electrical engineer, a computer whiz and energy buff.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312381851
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 7/15/1976
  • Edition number: 19
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 334,666
  • Product dimensions: 5.56 (w) x 7.28 (h) x 0.58 (d)

Meet the Author

Petr Beckmann was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1924. Until 1963, he worked as a research scientist for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, when he was invited as a Visiting Professor to the University of Colorado, where he decided to stay permanently as professor of electrical engineering. He has authored eleven books and more than fifty scientific papers, mostly on probability theory and electromagnetic wave propagation.

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  • Posted August 22, 2009

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    Exceptionally Written

    Peter Beckman does an excellent job in being comprehensive and, simultaneously, writes a large amount of information on a number of different topics in only 208 pages while not forming it into a mere reference book. It is definitely the best book written on Pi yet. I highly recommend it.

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  • Anonymous

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    An interesting book...

    Beckmann covers a lot of information in this seemingly small book. The book is well thought out and written in a way that is easy to understand. I must say I was more entertained than I anticipated being from a book on mathematics.

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