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    <body><![CDATA[An entertaining account of Pi in it's historical context.  Beckmann has a tendency to go on tangents in an attempt to analyze why certain societies were important in Pi's history and others weren't.  Some of these tangents are more interesting than others, but it is usually easy to separate Beckmann...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63345642">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[He goes through history and discusses different civilizations approximations of pi.  Pretty interesting to learn about the development of this concept and what it afforded it's developers.  His promise of simple math...not so much.  I could follow it sort of, although it was easy enough to just skip...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77820289">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The title is pretty self-explanatory. You want to know how pi was discovered? Read this. <br/><br/>For some reason I'm semi-fascinated with the discovery of math... If anyone knows a good book about vectors let me know!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The history of math and science (and therefore scientific thought, and therefore mankind) is a fascinating field.  I was exposed to it in high school by a Jesuit priest who was a fanatic about it.  I think I remember more about the history of science than I do about science.  Anyway, this is a good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18759963">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My friend Troy lent me this book. Mr Beckman wrote during the Cold War and it shows in his opinions. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd recommend this book to anyone, even if you think you might not care about PI. It's very entertaining, and a good look at the struggle of enlightenment and human achievement against ignorance.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beckmann's book is not really a history of pi so much as it is a history of mathematics peppered with diatribes about how dumb the Romans were. Seriously, he throws the words &quot;thugs&quot; and &quot;thieves&quot; around quite a bit and makes more than one comparison to the Nazis and Stalinist Ru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51699841">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice Mathematics micro-history book]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[great book. read if you're interested in the historical account of the circle ratio, and the thinkers who went digit hunting long before we had calculators with pi programmed to twenty something digits into them. this is not a math book - there is no math in it - but you might find yourself interest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36130847">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting early on, but became less so the further I read.  I think that's partly because it's written by a historian with no formal mathematics background.  Once the book reaches the modern age of mathematics and mechanical methods of calculation, the &quot;history&quot; part of Pi ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25462576">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[quirky but enjoyable read.  filled with many examples and anecdotes to illustrate a mathematical point or illuminate the character of one of the subjects.  One of the top two best math books I've read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[SO FASCINATING!!!!  This is the only popular science-type book I've read, I think, but I'm now a huge fan and hope to read many more.  The author's militant anti-Soviet Unionism was also amusing.  (His background makes these sentiments totally understandable.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a must read for everyone.  This book was so good that I could not put it down.  It is very insightfully about the discovery of calculations of Pi and some interesting facts about its history.  Can't wait to buy it for my mom for mother's day.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Totally nerdtastic. If you want a dozen different ways to calculate Pi, read this book. It also talks about the big boys of Pi's history and well as the idiots who ruined a good thing for ancient nerds (ie. the romans). ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book provides you with everything you could ever want to know about Pi. This is not only for adults, but also high school students. Not something that would be read in class, but possibly as an extra credit project.]]></body>
    
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