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• Title:Why pi? / Johnny Ball.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ball, Johnny.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : DK Pub., 2009.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA465 .B168 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Measurement--Juvenile literature.
  Mathematics--Juvenile literature.
  Pi--Juvenile literature.
  Measurement.
  Mathematics.
  
• Genre/Form:Literature.
  
• Description:93 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
  
• Summary:Focusing on how people from ancient Egyptians to modern scientists have used numbers to measure things through the ages, "Why Pi?" makes math interesting and is filled with games, puzzles, brainteasers, and fun facts.
  
• Notes:"How math applies to everyday life"--Cover.
  Includes index.
  
• ISBN:9780756651640
  0756651646
  
• Contents:The ANCIENT world
  The daily planet
  Moons and months
  Seasons in the sun
  The right angles
  Measuring the land
  It's all Greek
  A round world
  Measuring the world
  Why pi?
  Building Rome
  The art of building aqueducts
  Why measure any body?
  Night and day
  Make a sundial / Make a star clock
  Weighing up
  The age of DISCOVERY?
  What goes around what?
  Galileo the great
  The gravity of the situation
  Where on Earth?
  All at sea
  Longitude
  Mapping the world
  MODERN measuring
  Hot and cold
  Measuring energy
  Electricity
  Light fantastic
  Speed of light
  Under pressure
  Can you hear me?
  The sound of music
  Modern times
  Disaster!
  Very big
  Very small
  Weird and wonderful
  The metric system
  Answers/Index/Credits.