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Author: Steven R. Finch Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521818056 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 634
Book Description
Steven Finch provides 136 essays, each devoted to a mathematical constant or a class of constants, from the well known to the highly exotic. This book is helpful both to readers seeking information about a specific constant, and to readers who desire a panoramic view of all constants coming from a particular field, for example, combinatorial enumeration or geometric optimization. Unsolved problems appear virtually everywhere as well. This work represents an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.
Author: Steven R. Finch Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521818056 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 634
Book Description
Steven Finch provides 136 essays, each devoted to a mathematical constant or a class of constants, from the well known to the highly exotic. This book is helpful both to readers seeking information about a specific constant, and to readers who desire a panoramic view of all constants coming from a particular field, for example, combinatorial enumeration or geometric optimization. Unsolved problems appear virtually everywhere as well. This work represents an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.
Author: Steven R. Finch Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110860403X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 783
Book Description
Famous mathematical constants include the ratio of circular circumference to diameter, π = 3.14 ..., and the natural logarithm base, e = 2.718 .... Students and professionals can often name a few others, but there are many more buried in the literature and awaiting discovery. How do such constants arise, and why are they important? Here the author renews the search he began in his book Mathematical Constants, adding another 133 essays that broaden the landscape. Topics include the minimality of soap film surfaces, prime numbers, elliptic curves and modular forms, Poisson–Voronoi tessellations, random triangles, Brownian motion, uncertainty inequalities, Prandtl–Blasius flow (from fluid dynamics), Lyapunov exponents, knots and tangles, continued fractions, Galton–Watson trees, electrical capacitance (from potential theory), Zermelo's navigation problem, and the optimal control of a pendulum. Unsolved problems appear virtually everywhere as well. This volume continues an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.
Author: Various Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 166
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"Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants" is a collection of mathematical constants. The constants include The Backhouse constant, The Berstein Constant, The Catalan Constant, The Champernowne, Constant Copeland-Erdos constant cos (1) to 15000 digits among others as compiled and presented by the famed mathematician Simon Plouffe. Simon Plouffe is a mathematician who discovered the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP algorithm) which permits the computation of the nth binary digit of π, in 1995.
Author: Steven R. Finch Publisher: ISBN: 9781107266919 Category : MATHEMATICS Languages : en Pages : 624
Book Description
Steven Finch provides 136 essays, each devoted to a mathematical constant or a class of constants, from the well known to the highly exotic. This book is helpful both to readers seeking information about a specific constant, and to readers who desire a panoramic view of all constants coming from a particular field, for example, combinatorial enumeration or geometric optimization. Unsolved problems appear virtually everywhere as well. This work represents an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.
Author: John Barrow Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307555356 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constants—numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature, Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of these governing principles. Drawing on physicists such as Einstein and Planck, Barrow illustrates with stunning clarity our dependence on the steadfastness of these principles. But he also suggests that the basic forces may have been radically different during the universe’s infancy, and suggests that they may continue a deeply hidden evolution. Perhaps most tantalizingly, Barrow theorizes about the realities that might one day be found in a universe with different parameters than our own.
Author: Science Monkey Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
Have fun with mathematics and discover the value of the square root of 2, √2 in this book featuring about approximately 240,000 digits. Great gift for kids of all ages as well as adults, anyone with an appreciation for mathematics, logical equations, problem solving, aspiring scientists, math and science school teachers, physicists and more.
Author: Eleanor Robson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198152460 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 544
Book Description
Mathematics was integral to Mesopotamian scribal culture: indeed, writing was invented towards the end of the fourth millennium B.C. for the express purpose of recording numericalatical information. The main body of this book is a mathematical and philological discussion of the two hundred technical constants, or "coefficients," found in early second millennium mathematics. Their names and mathematical functions are established, leading to improved interpretations of several large mathematical topics. The origins of many coefficients--and much of the more practical mathematics--are traced to late third millennium accounting and quantity surveying practices. Finally, the coefficients are used to examine some aspects of mathematics education in early Mesopotamia.
Author: Matthew Watkins Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0802713807 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 68
Book Description
Collected in this book are commonly used formulae for studies such as quadratics, calculus and trigonometry; in addition are simplified explanations of Newton's Laws of Gravity and Snell's Laws of Refraction. A glossary, a table of mathematical and physical constants, and a listing of Imperial and Metric conversions is also included.
Author: Max Tegmark Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307744256 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 434
Book Description
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last—this is a book that has already prompted the attention and admiration of some of the most prominent scientists and mathematicians.
Author: Steven R. Finch
Author: Steven R. Finch
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