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History of pi

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New york Barnes & Noble 1993Description: 200p. illISBN:
  • 9780880294188 (HB)
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Contents:
1 Dawn 2 Belt 3 Early Greeks 4 Euclid 5 Roman pest 6 Archimedes of Syracuse 7 Dusk 8 Night 9 Awakening 10 Digit hunters 11 Last Archimedeans 12 Prelude to breakthrough 13 Newton 14 Euler 15 Monte Carlo method 16 Transcendence of [pi] 17 Modern circle squarers 18 Computer age
Summary: Documents the calculation, numerical value, and use of the ratio from 2000 B.C. to the modern computer age, detailing social conditions in eras when progress was made.
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IMSc Library IMSc Library 51-021.387(09) BEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 71945

Includes index.

Includes bibliography (p. 193-195)

1 Dawn
2 Belt
3 Early Greeks
4 Euclid
5 Roman pest
6 Archimedes of Syracuse
7 Dusk
8 Night
9 Awakening
10 Digit hunters
11 Last Archimedeans
12 Prelude to breakthrough
13 Newton
14 Euler
15 Monte Carlo method
16 Transcendence of [pi]
17 Modern circle squarers
18 Computer age

Documents the calculation, numerical value, and use of the ratio from 2000 B.C. to the modern computer age, detailing social conditions in eras when progress was made.

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