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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...
Alex Bellos, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Starting Points for Teaching Mathematics in Middle and Secondary Schools
by Banwell & Saunders and Tahta -
Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
by James Secord -
The History of Pi
by Petr Beckmann -
Damned Lies and Statistics
by Joel Best -
Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm
by Richard Royall -
The Foundations of Statistics
by Leonard J Savage
