Download or read book Pi and the AGM written by Jonathan M. Borwein and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1987-01-19 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new research revealing the interplay between classical analysis and modern computation and complexity theory. Two intimately interwoven threads run through the text: the arithmetic-geometric mean (AGM) iteration of Gauss, Lagrange, and Legendre and the calculation of pi.