Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number

by Ingmar Lehmann and Alfred S. Posamentier

Book Overview

We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that the value of this algebraic symbol is roughly 3.14. What we weren't told, though, is that behind this seemingly mundane fact is a world of mystery, which has fascinated mathematicians from ancient times to the present. Simply put, pi is weird. Mathematicians call it a "transcendental number" because its value cannot be calculated by any combination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591022002
• ISBN13: 9781591022008
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"