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Title: Makes me laugh, though it's not supposed to be funny
Review: Who would have thought that a book about the history of a transcendental could be so politicized! He wastes an entire chapter railing about how he thinks the Romans were just a bunch of dicks. He shows that the Archimedes Screw is still in use today, but not without claiming that Egyptian leaders "think it more important to destroy Israel than provide their people with modern irrigation." And it just keeps going. I roll my eyes and snigger at the sheer irrelevance of his politicizing, but there's plenty of other books about pi that stay on subject and don't waste time editorializing.
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