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Eli Maor
(4 Oct 1937 - )
mathematician who writes books on mathematics, geometry and the world of numbers in which he examines their cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He has also written articles about astronomy, his amateur passion.
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Science Quotes by Eli Maor (1)
The Biblical value of pi, by comparison, is exactly three, as is clear from a verse in 1 Kings vii 23: 'and he made a molten sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, and his height was five cubit; and a line of thirty cubits did encompass him round about.'
— Eli Maor
From To Infinity and Beyond (1991), 4.
