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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0911762183. Tight clean bright unmarked book in bright DJ with 1" tear and sunline to top edge.; 0.75 x 9.5 x 6.5 Inches; 202 pages; 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 not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.