(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691235325)
How a modern radio works, told through mathematics, history, and selected puzzlesThe modern radio is a wonder, and behind that magic is mathematics. In The Mathematical Radio, Paul Nahin explains how radios work, deploying mathematics and historical...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jan-2010, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Mathematical Association of America, ISBN-13: 9781470458454)
Did you know that Voltaire was the first to publish the legend of Isaac Newton discovering gravity upon seeing an apple fall? That he tried for about eight years to be a mathematician? That in 1752 he wrote Micromegas, a story about a French expediti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: , PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470457259)
This book is about models of motion as enunciated by poets, philosophers, story-tellers, and early scientists. By using popular literature and philosophy to bring the mechanics of motion alive, blending with equal voice both romantic whimsy and deriv...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2019, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: American Mathematical Society, ISBN-13: 9781470451561)
There is a nineteen-year recurrence in the apparent position of the sun and moon against the background of the stars, a pattern observed long ago by the Babylonians. In the course of those nineteen years the Earth experiences 235 lunar cycles. Suppos...Loe edasi...
