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“The History of Pi is so well written. It is really funny, really witty and charming – full of weird deadpan one-liners – but also incredibly opinionated. He says, ‘Not being a historian I am not obliged to wear the mask of dispassionate aloofness. Petr Beckmann was a Czech electrical engineer who lived in Czechoslovakia until he was 39 in 1963, when he went to America as a visiting professor and just stayed there.” Read more...
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Our most recommended books
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Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
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Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
by Joseph Bizup & Joseph M. Williams -
The Art of Readable Code
by Dustin Boswell & Trevor Foucher -
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas -
The Algorithm Design Manual
by Steven S. Skiena -
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
by Gerald Jay Sussman, Harold Abelson & Julie Sussman
