The Life of π (2014)

Paper 24: Jonathan M. Borwein, “The life of Pi: From Archimedes to ENIAC and beyond,” extended and updated version of “La vita di pi greco,” volume 2 of Mathematics and Culture, La mathematica: Problemi e teoremi, Guilio Einaudi Editori, Turino, Italian, 2008 (French, in press). Pages 523–561 of From Alexandria, through Baghdad: Surveys and Studies in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Mathematical Sciences in Honor of J. L. Berggren, Sidoli, Nathan; Van Brummelen, Glen (eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2014. With permission of Springer.