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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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Essays in the Theory of Risk-Bearing
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The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
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The History of Pi
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Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
by Ronald S. Calinger -
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
by Nathan Yau
