A history of [pi] (pi).
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Golem Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Pi
Notes: Bibliography: p. 189-191.
Table of contents: label: 1.
title: Dawn.
pagenum: 7; label: 2.
title: The belt.
pagenum: 18; label: 3.
title: The early Greeks.
pagenum: 34; label: 4.
title: Euclid.
pagenum: 42; label: 5.
title: The Roman pest.
pagenum: 52; label: 6.
title: Archimedes of Syracuse.
pagenum: 59; label: 7.
title: Dusk.
pagenum: 70; label: 8.
title: Night.
pagenum: 75; label: 9.
title: Awakening.
pagenum: 84; label: 10.
title: The digit hunters.
pagenum: 96; label: 11.
title: The last Archimedeans.
pagenum: 106; label: 12.
title: Prelude to breakthrough.
pagenum: 117; label: 13.
title: Newton.
pagenum: 130; label: 14.
title: Euler.
pagenum: 143; label: 15.
title: The Monte Carlo method.
pagenum: 154; label: 16.
title: The transcendence of π.
pagenum: 162; label: 17.
title: The modern circle squarers.
pagenum: 169; label: 18.
title: The computer age.
pagenum: 180; title: Notes.
pagenum: 186; title: Bibliography.
pagenum: 189; title: Chronological table.
pagenum: 192; title: Index.
pagenum: 194