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A History of Pi
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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.

Table Of Contents

1. DAWN 9
2. THE BELT 20
3. THE EARLY GREEKS 36
4. EUCLID 45
5. THE ROMAN PEST 55
6. ARCHIMEDES OF SyRACUSE 62
7. DUSK 73
8. NIGHT 78
9. AWAKENING 87
10. THE DIGIT HUNTERS 99
11. THE LAST ARCHIMEDEANS 110
12. PRELUDE TO BREAKTHROUGH 121
13. NEWTON 134
14. EULER. Pi 147
15. THE MONTE CARLO METHOD 158
16. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF 17 166
17. THE MODERN CIRCLE SQUARERS 173
18. THE COMPUTER AGE 183
Notes 190
Bibliography 193
Chronological Table 196
Index 198

Product Details

* ISBN: 0312381859
* ISBN-13: 9780312381851
* Format: Paperback, 208pp
* Publisher: St. Martin's Press
* Pub. Date: July 1976

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