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Tuesday, 26 July 2016
The Extraordinary William Emerson (NZ308102)
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One of the North-East’s greatest eccentrics, William Emerson, was born in Hurworth-on-Tees in 1701. He was also a brilliant mathematici...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
William Shanks and Pi (NZ345499)
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Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is perhaps the most famous of our mathematical constants. It has fascinated ma...
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