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A History of Pi Spiral-Bound | July 15, 1976

Petr Beckmann

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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress -- and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0312381859
Item Weight: 0.4 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
A pure delight . . . Entirely offbeat, which gives it its charm.

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.