Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number
Alfred S. Posamentier, Ingmar Lehmann
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.
الفئات:
عام:
2004
الناشر:
Prometheus
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
324
ISBN 10:
1591022002
ISBN 13:
9781591022008
ملف:
PDF, 64.87 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2004