Pi: a Source Book
Published on 1. May 1997
Book
Hardback
735 pages
978-0-387-94924-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text provides a complete history of pi from the dawn of mathematical time to the present. Chapters cover such topics as: quadrature of the circle in Ancient Egypt; circle measurements in Ancient China; and the irrationality of Pi.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
73 figures
ISBN-13
978-0-387-94924-6 (9780387949246)
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10/1999
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Content
The Rhind mathematical papyryus - problem 50, Engles; quadrature of the circle in Ancient Europe, Archimedes; measurement of a circle, Phillips; Archimedes the numerical analyst, Lam and Ang; circle measurements in Ancient China, the Banu Musa; the measurement of plane and solid figures, Madhava; the power series for Arctan and Pi, Hope-Jones; Ludolph van Ceulen, Viete; varorium de revus mathematicis reponsorum liber VII, Wallis; computation of Pi by successive interpolations, Wallis; arithmetica infinitorum, Huygens; de circuli magnitudine inventa, Gregory; correspondence with John Collins, Jones; thy first use of Pi for the circle ratio, Newton; of the method of fluxions and infinite series, Lambert; memoire sur quelques proprietes remarquables des quantites transcendentes circulaires et logarithmiques, Lambert; irrationality of Pi, Shanks; contributions to mathematics comprising chiefly of the rectification of the circle to 607 places of decimals, Hermite; sur la fonction exponentielle, Lindemann.