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	Petr Beckmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Petr Beckmann (1924-1993) was a physicist who defected to the United States from Czechoslovakia in 1963 and became a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado.
		He was a prolific scientific author; he wrote several electrical engineering textbooks and non-technical works, including The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear (Golem Press, 1976), a book promoting nuclear power during the height of the anti-nuclear movement.
		Beckmann was also a frequent and colorful participant in Usenet debates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petr_Beckmann (180 words)

	A History of Pi: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Petr Beckmann was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1924.
		Beckmann is treating the history of pi as a microcosm of the history of science and human freedom.
		Beckmann is an interesting fellow: he's an escapee from Communist Eastern Europe, he was for a time associated with Ayn Rand's silly "Objectivist" movement, and he has edited a journal of anti-Einsteinian physics.
	www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-0312381859.html (3058 words)

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		Beckmann argues that the medium through which light waves travel (or more generally, electromagnetic waves) is not a universal, all pervasive, uniform substance-the ether-but more simply the local gravitational field.
		Beckmann illustrates this key point with the following analogy: Imagine a woman wearing a hoop skirt fitting loosely around her waist.
		The experiment would be crucial because, if Beckmann is correct, the much greater velocity with which a satellite passes through the Earth's gravitational field (a satellite's day" is ninety minutes) would increase by a factor of four hundred the fringe shift that Beckmann would expect to find.
	users.rcn.com /zap.dnai/cheinie.txt (1897 words)

	National Review: Petr Beckmann, R I P - college professor of electrical engineering - Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		PETR BECKMANN, who published Access to Energy and taught at the University of Colorado, died in Boulder on August 3.
		Petr Beckmann was born in Prague in 1924.
		Petr Beckmann had phenomenal energy, and his output, including the journal Galilean Electrodynamics, which he founded in 1990, was more than two industrious men could reasonably be expected to achieve.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n22_v45/ai_14667446 (559 words)

	Cashiers du Cinemart Issue 9
		In Beckmann's introduction he admits that he is neither a historian nor a mathematician and the lack of these skills makes him eminently qualified to write a history of pi.
		Part of the fun of Beckmann's book, apart from his well-written chronicles of an elusive constant from ancient Babylon to the computer labs of the early 70's, is his discarding the illusion of objectivism and unflinchingly displaying his strong opinions.
		To Beckmann, the periods of least growth in art and science occur during eras of oppression when learning and discovery are curtailed, controlled, or advanced solely for the benefit of the party in charge.
	www.impossiblefunky.com /archives/issue_9/9_pibook.asp?IshNum=9 (1383 words)

	Vol. 21, No. 2 - Access to Energy Newsletter
		Petr Beckmann was also an effective soldier in the successful battle to defeat Nazism and Communism, two of the more pernicious tyrannies of his time.
		Beckmann is remembered most widely, however, as one of the very few articulate and capable scientists who were willing to make the many personal and professional sacrifices necessary to effectively defend our civilization from the anti-science, antirational, anti-freedom, anti-human enemies who seek to destroy it.
		Beckmann was a solitary master at explaining both the bending of pencils and the distorting of truth.
	www.accesstoenergy.com /view/ate/s41p801.htm (6730 words)

	History of Pi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Petr Beckmann reminds me of the best teachers I had when growing up in the Czech Republic: eccentrically opinionated but immensely well read and in love with his subject.
		Beckmann, who emigrated to the United States in 1964 from Czechoslovakia, ended up teaching engineering at the University of Colorado and writing his book after school.
		Beckmann’s boook, of course, has much more background, including a proof that π is transcendental.
	rehor.net /books/0880294183.html (239 words)

	Pi in Indiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The story continually surfaces about the Indiana Legislature's attempted or actual redefinition of pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to be the value 3.
		Petr Beckmann relates the history of Indiana House Bill 246 of 18 January 1897, in which Edwin J. Goodman, MD, proposes to give some of his mathematical accomplishments to the people of Indiana, which included squaring the circle, without cost, though inhabitants of other states would have to pay.
		Petr Beckmann, A History of Pi (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971).
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/humor/pi.htm (530 words)

	Conservative Fear of Albert Einstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is not clear to me from Bethell's column whether Beckmann understands relativity or not; it is clear that Bethell does not understand what he is attacking--and that he is attacking it because of what he presumes are the moral and political implications of relativity physics.
		Above all, he is likely to be remembered for having undermined Einstein's theory of relativity, and for showing how physics could be returned to the classical foundation from which it was dislodged at the beginning of the twentieth century.
		Beckmann says that most students of physics shrug and accept relativity theory--theirs is not to quarrel with the sainted genius of the twentieth century.
	econ161.berkeley.edu /Comments/occasional/bethell.html (2037 words)

	Petr Beckmann - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Beckmann decided to stay there and he became a Professor of electrical engineering at that university which he remained until his retirement in 1981.
		Beckmann even had his own magazine Access to Energy which is, after his death on August 3, 1993, published by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM).
		The 'Petr Beckmann Award for courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom' is awarded at the annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) which is closely linked to OISM.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Petr_Beckmann (564 words)

	Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
		Until 1963, he worked as a research scientist for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, when he was invited as a Visiting Professor to the University of Colorado, where he decided to stay permanently as professor of electrical engineering.
		Beckmann has authored eleven books and more than fifty scientific papers, mostly on probability theory and electromagnetic wave propagation.
		History is one of his side interests; another is linguistics (he is fluent in five languages and he has worked out a new generative grammar which enables a computer to construct trillions of grammatical sentences from a dictionary of less than 100 unprocessed words).
	www.cut-the-knot.com /books/HistoryOfPi/back.shtml (172 words)

	Petr Beckmann: A History of Pi - Køb Bøger: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The author shuffles, leaps, or waltzes from tantalizing tidbits of information we've either mislearnt, learnt or long forgotten in his quest to provide us an entertaining & learned discussion of mathematicians & their tools (ruler/compass) used to arrive at Pi, a transcendental number: hence, circles cannot be squared.
		Beckmann dispenses nicely with Carl Theodore Heisel's claims to the contrary.
		Petr Beckmann disavows himself as historian or mathematician but this book would seem to prove otherwise.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/book_details.php/0312381859\|books\| (937 words)

	Pi Books -- Reviewed by Eve Andersson
		Beckmann traces the history of Pi from the ancient Babylonians (2000 BC) to near-modern times (1970s) and shows the parallels between the history of Pi, the history of mathematics, and the history of civilization.
		Beckmann tends to go off on lively tangents (e.g., how Roman "thugs" hindered mathematical progress), but I think this makes the story more interesting.
		It is much more modern than Beckmann's book and explains algorithms used to make recent Pi-calculation-history, e.g., those used by Kanada and the Chudnovsky brothers.
	www.eveandersson.com /pi/books (855 words)

	Petr Beckmann - TheBestLinks.com - Albert Einstein, Author, Czechoslovakia, Electrical engineering, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Petr Beckmann - TheBestLinks.com - Albert Einstein, Author, Czechoslovakia, Electrical engineering,...
		Petr Beckmann, Albert Einstein, Author, Czechoslovakia, Electrical engineering...
		Petr Beckmann (1924-1993) was a physicist who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1963 and became a Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Petr_Beckmann.html (207 words)

	Welcome to Fort Freedom!
		Professor Petr Beckmann published the Access to Energy, "A Pro-Science, Pro-Technology, Pro-Free Enterprise Monthly Newsletter" for 20 years until August 1993.
		During that time he had a bulletin board system which could be accessed by his subscribers.
		Beckmann to send me the contents of Fort Freedom on disk.
	www.fortfreedom.org (588 words)

	College Mathematics Journal, The: A History of Pi / The Joy of Pi / The Nothing That Is / The Story of a Number / An ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Freed from the "dispassionate aloofness of the historian and the tiresome rigor of the mathematician," Petr Beckmann fashioned A History of Pi for a new age.
		True to his word, Beckmann does not "complicate" his explanations by "excessive mathematical rigor." Nevertheless, there is just enough mathematical detail to keep the book respectable.
		The author tells us that the computation of 707 digits of pi in 1873 "was hailed throughout the civilized world as the unveiling of a great mathematical truth," but he does not inform us that each additional term of the Chudnovskys' series yields an additional 14 digits of pi.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3773/is_200103/ai_n8934564 (1577 words)

	Solar Fraud Book
		In this classic book, Petr Beckmann compares the hazards of nuclear energy with those of other sources in the only honest way: by comparing hazards for equal amounts of energy produced.
		An extract of Beckmann's Probability in Communication Engineering (Harcourt Brace and World, 1967), this book is written as an introduction to probability for students of science and engineering who have a background in calculus.
		This, says Beckmann, is offensive to the relativity principle.
	www.valeslake.com /bookmart.htm (915 words)

	The JamesPHogan.com Bulletin Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A book that I'd recommend is Petr Beckmann's Einstein Plus Two, in which he develops the consequences of taking the velocity that matters to be not that with respect to the observer, but that of charges or masses with respect to the traversed gravitational field.
		The difference is that the observed results follow not from any distortions of space and time, but from the breakdown of the inverse-square law at high velocities due to finite propagation times.
		The late Petr Beckmann was also the author of The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear, comparing the real risks of nuclear energy with those associated with the much-touted "alternatives," in which nuclear wins easily.
	www.jamesphogan.com /bb/single.shtml?102997-2 (233 words)

	Pam's Book Log
		His prejudices, while clearly stated (he loves Newton and Euler, and hates the Roman Empire, organized religion, and Communism) certainly influence his presentation of the material.
		To hear Beckmann tell it, the Romans, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Soviet Union never produced anything of any value or accomplished anything of interest, in mathematics or any other venture.
		I found this book a fun, light read, but I wouldn't recommend it to the general public, it's got a fair amount of math in it (nothing beyond what is taught in the average American high school), and Beckmann's opinionizing will not be appreciated by the easily-offended.
	www.physics.ucla.edu /~kor2/booklog/beckmann-pi.html (525 words)

	BookkooB: A History of Pi - Petr Beckmann
		Above you will see a list of UK book stores, along with their stock and price details for A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann.
		Beckmann was a mordant, informed example of kind.
		Petr Beckmann was never one to mince words.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0312381859.htm (842 words)

	Petr Beckmann Publications - Access to Energy - Pro-Science, Pro-Technology, Pro-Freedom
		, we enclosed the annual green flier for gift subscriptions and for publications by Petr Beckmann available from Golem Press, which is operated by Mrs.
		If you recently purchased the 21-year CD, we will send the 25-year version at no cost when it is ready.
		In addition to Petr Beckmann's popular books, the technical books he published (written by him, and/or by others) are superb.
	www.accesstoenergy.com /view/ate/s41p901.htm (208 words)

	Martin Gardener's Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I was surprised when he said he would be glad to hear from me so I wrote immediately about some of what I had suddenly noticed in the first block of decimals in Petr Beckmann’s book, The History of Pi.
		It was the same 'kind' of event that had exposed the hidden pattern in the first block of decimals in pi, as they are arranged on the back pages of Petr Beckmann's The History of Pi.
		A period of time was somehow 'marked off' in retrospect, as I 'saw' that the numbers 156 had been coming 'at' me for several years before I bought ETW 651, which was NOT a vanity license tab.
	pimoebius.com /martin_gardner.htm (7616 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A SHARED NUCLEAR SECRET <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< By Petr Beckmann 5/29/88 [This article is very similar to the one that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on December..
		To conventional wisdom such a statement sounds absurd; but that is only because the point is rarely discussed -- nor ever seriously disputed.
		The Fort Freedom BBS is a BBS that is available only to subscribers of Petr Beckmann's Pro-Freedom, Pro-Science, and Pro-Nuclear Power newsletter ACCESS TO ENERGY.
	www.logicsouth.com /~lcoble/lfnv/nffp5.txt (1128 words)

	Sherwood B. Idso - SourceWatch
		Sherwood B. Idso is the President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
		He received in 2003 the Petr Beckmann Award for "courage and achievement in the defense of scientific truth and freedom".
		It was given "for his work demonstrating the fertilizing effect of increased carbon dioxide on the biosphere".
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Sherwood_B._Idso (232 words)

	National Review: Petr Beckmann, R I P. (college professor of ele... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		National Review: Petr Beckmann, R I P. (college professor of ele...
		Petr Beckmann, R I P. (college professor of electrical engineering) (Editorial)
		All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:14667446&... (529 words)

	Quackgrass Press: Outside links
		Fort Freedom was founded years ago by Professor Petr Beckmann as a computer bulletin board.
		The newsletter Access to Energy was founded by Petr Beckmann, and is being ably carried on by Dr. Arthur Robinson of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.
		(Yes, the same Petr Beckmann who founded Access to Energy.) In Einstein Plus Two, Dr. Beckmann shows that the Einsteinian paraphernalia of curving space and dilating time are not necessary to account for the experimental evidence.
	www.quackgrass.com /roots/links.html (2289 words)

	Throb.co.uk ::: A History of Pi (buy new from £7.21 or used from £5.75) by Petr Beckmann ::: gay books reviews, ...
		Dr. Petr Beckmann was never one to mince words.
		He quotes a biblical passage that strongly implies that pi equals 3, and while he is never disrespectful to the Bible, he does mock the tortured attempts of some fundamentalists to reconcile this passage with the actual value of pi.
		In reading this book, I got the feeling that he couldn't write a grocery list without taking a few good swipes at the Russians.
	www.throb.co.uk /cocktale/asin.php/0312381859 (769 words)

	The Truth About The Safety Of Nuclear Energy
		This information was taken from the book The Health Hazards of NOT Going Nuclear by Dr. Petr Beckmann, 10th printing, published by Golem Press, 1985.
		The technology used to convert energy via nuclear fission is entirely different from that used to create nuclear bombs and an explosion is impossible.
		Had the weather not been favorable, thousands of lives would have been lost (Beckmann, pp.88-89.) Now, think about the fact that there is a place (undisclosed) on the east cost that stores 151 million gallons of oil literally on top of a town of 37,000 people (Beckmann p.92).
	www.haydenpub.com /nuclear.htm (993 words)

	Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Annual Meeting
		Baliunas's awards include the Newton-Lacy-Pierce Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Bok Prize from Harvard University, and the 1997 Petr Beckmann Award for the Defense of Scientific Truth and Freedom.
		Robinson is founder and president of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which, in addition to its scientific research work, has produced a wealth of materials on civil defense, including videotapes of the methods and equipment described in Nuclear War Survival Skills.
		Robinson received the Petr Beckmann Award in 1998.
	www.oism.org /ddp/speak02.htm (1491 words)

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