Hi, On 6/13/20 04:14, Joerg Arndt wrote:
People who would enjoy J.\ M.\ Borwein, P.\ B.\ Borwein: {Ramanujan and Pi}, Scientific American 256, pp.~112-117, (1988). Reprinted (pp.~588ff) in Lennart Berggren, Jonathan Borwein, Peter Borwein, (eds.): {Pi: A Source Book} Springer-Verlag, (1997)
Do you know if there's some way to look at this article easily? I found an article online, https://carma.newcastle.edu.au/resources/jon/RAMA125f.pdf but it doesn't follow it's the one in Scientific American.
Note how the "hard stuff" is printed in boxes, using a slightly smaller font than the running text. Why did they not just keep it that way? This, by the way, could have saved the attempt to popularize the "goldbug" paper I mentioned before. With web-based publication one could even turn those boxes into optional elements, "click here for the scary details"-style.
Has anyone asked why they changed? Was there a rationale provided, ever? Andres.