Pi: a source book
approximability by rationalsearly history of \(\pi\)formulae involving \(\pi\)irrationalitynormalitytranscendence
Collections of reprinted articles (00B60) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to history and biography (01-01) General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to number theory (11-00) History of number theory (11-03) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to number theory (11-04) Transcendence (general theory) (11J81) Number-theoretic algorithms; complexity (11Y16)
This book contains reprints of 70 articles dealing with \(\pi\) in one way or another, together with three appendices on the early history of \(\pi\), a computational chronology and formulae involving \(\pi\). The earliest article is the Rhind papyrus (c. 1650 B.C.) and the most recent the paper by \textit{D. Bailey}, \textit{P. Borwein}, and \textit{S. Plouffe} [Math. Comput. 66, 903--913 (1997)]. Some of the greatest mathematicians, from Archimedes onward, are represented here for work that has advanced our knowledge of \(\pi\) -- its calculation to more and more places, its irrationality and transcendence, its approximability by rationals, as well as statistics that support its (unproved) normality. Recent work shows the impact of computers and the development of algorithms that give fast convergence. There are also a number of more elementary expository articles. Interspersed are curiosities such as the attempt to get the Indiana State Legislature to fix \(\pi\) by statute (and, in effect, patent it, although it was the wrong value) and mnemonics for \(\pi\) in prose and verse. The editors state that ``Both professional and amateur mathematicians \(\dots\) can find in [this book] a source of instruction, study, and inspiration. They most certainly can.
- Self-replication and Borwein-like algorithms
- On the roots of the generalized Rogers-Ramanujan function
- Adam Adamandy Kochański's approximations of : reconstruction of the algorithm
- Proof of Chudnovskys' hypergeometric series for \(1/\pi\) using Weber modular polynomials
- An irrationality result for a recursive construction
- Pentagons in medieval sources and architecture
- P for . Nomen omen
- Hypergeometric identities for 10 extended Ramanujan-type series
- Pi: The Next Generation
- Filling a gap in the history of : an exciting discovery
- Ramanujan: a tale of two evaluations
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2131060 (Why is no real title available?)
- Wallis' sequence estimated accurately using an alternating series
- I prefer Pi: a brief history and anthology of articles in The American Mathematical Monthly
- Quantum mechanical derivation of the Wallis formula for
- A rational approach to \(\pi\).
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3954847 (Why is no real title available?)
- The Ubiquitous π
- More hypergeometric identities related to Ramanujan-type series
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1161948 (Why is no real title available?)
- Pi-unleashed. Transl. from the German by Catriona and David Lischka. Incl. 1 CD-ROM
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2143860 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1450280 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7249138 (Why is no real title available?)
- Views of pi: definition and computation
- Great calculations. A surprising look behind 50 scientific inquiries
- Some remarks about a formula of Charles Dodgson
- Vieta-like products of nested radicals
- A history of determining values of from an acient to modern period
- Pi -- the value and its origin
- Summation formulas on harmonic numbers and five central binomial coefficients
- Series Involving Cubic Central Binomial Coefficients of Convergence Rate 1/64
- Probabilistic Lambert problem: connections with optimal mass transport, Schrödinger bridge, and reaction-diffusion PDEs
- Fifteen series on harmonic numbers and quintic central binomial coefficients
- Best \(k\)-digit rational approximation of irrational numbers: pre-computer versus computer era
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