The Joy of Pi - Couverture souple

Blatner, David

 
9780140266801: The Joy of Pi

Synopsis

Few mathematical mysteries have captured the imagination as much as pi: the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. For four thousand years we have struggled with this magical number. In THE JOY OF PI David Blatner tells its bizarre story: from Archimedes to da Vinci, from Newton to the Chudnovsky brothers, currently calculating pi to billions of places with a homemade supercomputer. 'It is hardly an overstatement to call pi the most important number in the history of civilisation...[Blatner] takes the reader on a colourful, visually rich tour through this still incompletely known number's rich history as a mathematical holy grail' - Publisher's Weekly

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À propos de l'auteur

David Blatner is an internationally known expert in computing and the author of seven books on topics such as digital imaging and virtual reality. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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