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Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number

By Alfred S. Posamentier , Ingmar Lehmann

Book information

Publisher
Prometheus Books
Year
2004
ISBN
1591022002, 9781591022008
Open Library ID
OL8851028M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (3741779 bytes)
Pages
323\323
Topic
Mathematics\\Number Theory
DPI
600
Scanned
no
Time added
2009-08-06 05:14:26

Description

In this delightful layperson's introduction to one of math's most interesting phenomena, Drs Posamentier and Lehmann review p's history from pre-biblical times to the 21st century, the many amusing and mind-boggling ways of estimating p over the centuries, quirky examples of obsessing about p (including an attempt to legislate its exact value), and useful applications of p in everyday life, including statistics.

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