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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Abbreviated Proceedings. April 8-18, 1957
Author: Abbreviated Proceedings of the Oxford Mathematical Conference for Schoolteachers and Industrialists at Trinity College, Oxford, April 8-18, 1957 and Administered by Oxford University Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies
Author: Pi: A Source Book
Author: J.L. BerggrenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1475742177
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
This book documents the history of pi from the dawn of mathematical time to the present. One of the beauties of the literature on pi is that it allows for the inclusion of very modern, yet accessible, mathematics. The articles on pi collected herein fall into various classes. First and foremost there is a selection from the mathematical and computational literature of four millennia. There is also a variety of historical studies on the cultural significance of the number. Additionally, there is a selection of pieces that are anecdotal, fanciful, or simply amusing. For this new edition, the authors have updated the original material while adding new material of historical and cultural interest. There is a substantial exposition of the recent history of the computation of digits of pi, a discussion of the normality of the distribution of the digits, and new translations of works by Viete and Huygen.
Pi: A Source Book
Author: Jonathan M. BorweinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475732406
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Our intention in this collection is to provide, largely through original writings, an ex tended account of pi from the dawn of mathematical time to the present. The story of pi reflects the most seminal, the most serious, and sometimes the most whimsical aspects of mathematics. A surprising amount of the most important mathematics and a signifi cant number of the most important mathematicians have contributed to its unfolding directly or otherwise. Pi is one of the few mathematical concepts whose mention evokes a response of recog nition and interest in those not concerned professionally with the subject. It has been a part of human culture and the educated imagination for more than twenty-five hundred years. The computation of pi is virtually the only topic from the most ancient stratum of mathematics that is still of serious interest to modern mathematical research. To pursue this topic as it developed throughout the millennia is to follow a thread through the history of mathematics that winds through geometry, analysis and special functions, numerical analysis, algebra, and number theory. It offers a subject that provides mathe maticians with examples of many current mathematical techniques as weIl as a palpable sense of their historical development. Why a Source Book? Few books serve wider potential audiences than does a source book. To our knowledge, there is at present no easy access to the bulk of the material we have collected.
Abbreviated Proceedings
Author: Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Author: Peter G. DeanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317727460
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
School mathematics is a complex subject and an ever-changing topic, but this book will help teachers, parents and employers to understand it better.
Teaching Maths
Author: D.M. NealPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136896589
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
School mathematics is a complex subject and an ever-changing topic, but this book will help teachers, parents and employers to understand it better.
The Mathematical Gazette
Author: Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Author: American Mathematical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
United Nations Yearbook of the International Law Commission
Author: United Nations. International Law CommissionPublisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages :
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