Pi Unleashed ... a very interesting book

[Joe Horn]

Another absolutely delightful book is "A History of Pi" by Petr Beckmann (1976), in stock and inexpensive at You Know Where. It's too old to tell the exciting story of Simon Plouffe's 1995 discovery of the very first formula that can generate any desired hex digit of pi without calculating the ones before it. But the late Petr Beckmann was so smart, so funny, and just eccentric enough to make his book a really fun read. Highly recommended.