Petr Beckmann

A History of Pi

Name: A History of Pi
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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Dawn
2. The Belt
3. The Early Greeks
4. Euclid
5. The Roman Pest
6. Archimedes of Syracuse
7. Dusk
8. Night
9. Awakening
10. The Digit Hunters
11. The Last Archimedeans
12. Prelude to Breakthrough
13. Newton
14. Euler
15. The Monte Carlo Method
16. The Transcendence of Pi
17. The Modern Circle Squarers
18. The Computer Age

Notes
Bibliography
Chronological Table
Index
The First 10,000 Decimal Places of Pi

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

15. Juli 1976

Sprache

englisch

Auflage

19th edition

Seitenanzahl

208

Autor/Autorin

Petr Beckmann

Verlag/Hersteller

St. Martin's Publishing Group

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

231 g

Größe (L/B/H)

209/140/14 mm

ISBN

9780312381851

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Petr Beckmann

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.

Pressestimmen

"A pure delight . . . Entirely offbeat, which gives it its charm." --"The Denver Post"
"A very readable account." --"Science"
"A cheerful work." --"Scientific American"

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