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Julian Havil
Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today’s most important math writers
Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian…
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Whenever Forty-second Street in New York is temporarily closed, traffic doesn’t gridlock but flows more smoothly - why is that? Or consider that cities that build new roads can experience…
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Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today’s most important math writers Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian…
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Math - the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions - usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes - conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain…
John Napier (1550-1617) is celebrated today as the man who invented logarithms–an enormous intellectual achievement that would soon lead to the development of their mechanical equivalent in the slide rule…
Das Buch stellt eine Reihe scheinbar paradoxer mathematischer Aussagen und deren Beweise vor. Sie kommen aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Mathematik, darunter das Geburtstagsparadoxon, Conways Chequerboard-Armee und Torricellis Trompete. Zahlreiche Abbildungen…
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Jeder kennt p = 3,14159…, viele kennen e = 2,71828…, einige i. Aber was ist mit g = 0,5772156…? Fettfinger in Woerterbuchern, elende mathematische Wurmer, Jeeps in der Wuste. Besser…
Takes the reader on a journey through logarithms and the harmonic series, the two defining elements of gamma, toward the first account of gamma’s place in mathematics. This book shows…
An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century.
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers…
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