3—Pi Through the Ages
This site might take a little while to load but it is the best place I have found to start an exploration about the history of pi. It is part of the MacTutor pages on the history of mathematics. If you click on 'Rhind Papyrus' you can see a picture of this ancient Egyptian document. One very nice feature of the MacTutor pages is that they have a large collection of biographies of mathematicians and the names of the mathematicians mentioned in the articles are linked to the biographies. Especially to be recommended is the Archimedes biography with its many links to other material on the web.

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The address (URL) of the current site is: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

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