The big book of pi : the famous number you can never know / Anita Lehmann ; Jean-Baptiste Aubin; Joonas Sildre.
For millennia, humans have been obsessed with the number Pi. We needed it for architecture, geometry and astronomy, and so it was sought by the ancient Egyptians, the Mayans and the ancient Chinese. But no one has ever found it and no one ever will because Pi is infinite and irrational. Its decimals contain the birthdates of all the children who have ever lived, every piece of music, the complete works of Shakespeare. Pi never ends and can t be learned, but humans keep on trying. Today, we know trillions of decimals of Pi, even if the first fifteen are more than enough to send a rocket to Mars!
Record details
- ISBN: 3039640895
- ISBN: 9783039640898
- Physical Description: 87 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition: Second edition.
- Publisher: Basel, Switzerland : HELVETIQ, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2026
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- Formatted Contents Note:
- Pi story -- Fun with PI -- Jokes -- E-PI-LOGUE -- Prove it!
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For millennia, humans have been obsessed with the number Pi. We needed it for architecture, geometry and astronomy, and so it was sought by the ancient Egyptians, the Mayans and the ancient Chinese. But no one has ever found it and no one ever will because Pi is infinite and irrational. Its decimals contain the birthdates of all the children who have ever lived, every piece of music, the complete works of Shakespeare. Pi never ends and can t be learned, but humans keep on trying. Today, we know trillions of decimals of Pi, even if the first fifteen are more than enough to send a rocket to Mars!
