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The Joy of Pi
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Author
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David Blatner.
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Publisher
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Walker/QPB
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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6.25
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6.25
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0.4
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ISBN
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9780802775627
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Pages/Publication Date
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130/1997
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Daedalus Item Code
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21288
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This item is not available.
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Description
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No number has captured the imagination of intelligent people through the ages quite like the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi is infinite and, in David Blatner's insightful and refreshingly humorous book, it proves to be infinitely intriguing. Blatner explores the many facets of pi and our fascination with it, from the ancient Egyptians and the Greek polymath Archimedes to Leonardo da Vinci and the Chudnovsky brothers, who have calculated pi to eight billion digits with a homemade supercomputer. Along the way, sidebars document pi trivia, mnemonic devices are provided to help remember pi to many hundreds of digits, and cartoons, limericks, and jokes offer delightfully "square" pi humor.
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