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Why Pi?

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4.1 out of 5
Based on 124 Ratings and 22 Reviews

Book Description
This entertaining follow-up to DK's popular Go Figure!, Why Pi? presents even more mind-bending ways to think about numbers. This time, author Johnny Ball focuses on how people have used numbers to measure things through the ages, from the ways the ancient Egyptians measured the pyramids to how modern scientists measure time and space.
Johnny Ball has hosted more than 20 UK children's televis... More
Book Information
PublisherDorling Kindersley
BindingHardcover (3 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages96
ISBN-100756651646
ISBN-13978-0756651640
Publication Date08/31/2009
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About DK Publishing (Author) : DK Publishing is a published author, editor, corporate author, and a photographer of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of DK Publishing include The Ultimate Book of... more
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About Johnny Ball (Author) : Johnny Ball is a published author of children's books. Some of the published credits of Johnny Ball include Go Figure!: A Totally Cool Book About Numbers (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Award... more
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