Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sri-iu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!sri-iu!PEREIRA From: PEREIRA@sri-iu.UUCP (PEREIRA) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: PI is irrational Message-ID: <18@sri-iu.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 15:54:24 EST Article-I.D.: sri-iu.18 Posted: Sun Dec 23 15:54:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Dec-84 02:07:25 EST References: <215@decwrl.UUCP>, <17957@lanl.ARPA>, <339@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: S.R.I. International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 8 For those interested in learning about the transcendentality of pi, the squaring of the circle and other results of field theory, I suggest ``Field Theory and ist Classical Problems'', by Charles Robert Hadlock , The Mathematical Association of America, 1978, ISBN 0-88385-020-6. I find this a very readable introduction with minimal prerequisites (basic calculus and linear algebra). -- Fernando Pereira