Petr Beckmann was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1924. He has authored eleven books and more than fifty scientific papers, mostly on probability theory and electromagnetic wave propagation.
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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress—and also when it did ... SEE MORE