If This Is a Man to shape the book, giving it a clear sense of direction. In January 1947, the manuscript was rejected by Einaudi. The writers Cesare Pavese and Natalia Ginzburg thought it too early after the war for such an account. Levi managed to find a smaller publisher, De Silva, who printed 2,500 copies of the book, 1,500 of which were sold, mostly in Levi's hometown of Turin. In 1955, Levi signed a contract with Einaudi for a new edition, which was published in 1958. The initial printing of 2000 copies was followed by a second of the same size. An English translation
Power of a point that this number is independent of the diameter. In the case when the algebraic curve is a circle this is not quite the same as the power of a point with respect to a circle defined in the rest of this article, but differs from it by a factor of "d". Power of a point In elementary plane geometry, the power of a point is a real number "h" that reflects the relative distance of a given point from a given circle. Specifically, the power of a point P with respect to a circle "O" of radius "r" is defined