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Title: The Joy of Pi by David Blatner ISBN: 0-8027-7562-4 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (26 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: 3.141592.........
Comment: I enjoyed this book immensely. It is neither too long to be ponderous for its subject - a non-technical review of the fascination of the number pi - nor too brief to be trivial. Its graphic nature and content went a long way to maintaining my interest and stimulating my own ideas. Maybe I do have a way to square the circle!
Just kidding!!
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting, if sometimes myopic and puerile
Comment: An enjoyable enough romp through the mystery, history, and personalities surrounding the elusive ratio, but after illustrating and celebrating the many paradigm-shifts involving the search for and understanding of pi, e.g., Archimedean or electronic, the author spends several chapters making fun of cyclometers/cyclometricians (circle-squarers), never entertaining that the next leap in pi studies (if there is such a thing) just MIGHT be among them, and never realizing or admitting that those who in retrospect are now called visionaries in mathematics, were at one time considered cranks by the establishmentarians they harried and displaced. Also, it could be difficult for someone not well versed in mathematics to follow the formulas recited in the audio format, but this is kept to a minimum, and you can always "rewind." The audio version does offer a worthwhile musical bonus.
Rating: 5
Summary: A romp in the park with the world's most enchanting number!
Comment: I used to hate math. I had no use for it other than balancing my checkbook, and even that was a laborious task. Then while visiting my brother, who happens to be an engineer, I noticed this book lying on his coffee table. Tired of feeling "out of the loop" in the math world, I picked up the book. What a page-turner! I spent the entire next day discussing Pi with my brother, and in turn learned more about math and the laws of physics in one day than I ever had in school! Who knew that a number I once dismissed could be so transcendental and enigmatical??? My only regret was that the book ended, and now my view of math has forever changed. What a whimsical and paradoxical subject! I cannot WAIT to show this book to my son. He's only a toddler now but believe me, he will come to fully know the true magic and mysticism of a little number called Pi.
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Title: e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor ISBN: 0691058547 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife, Matt Zimet ISBN: 0140296476 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: History of Pi by Peter Beckman, Petr Beckmann ISBN: 0312381859 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: August, 1976 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin ISBN: 0691027951 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 24 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: To Infinity and Beyond by Eli Maor ISBN: 0691025118 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 09 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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