E : the Story of a number
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that l...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Princeton University Press
2015
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| Ausgabe: | New Princeton Science Library paperback printing |
| Schriftenreihe: | Princeton science library
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest mathematical background, this biography brings out the central importance of e to mathematics and illuminates a golden era in the age of science. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten [217]-219 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 227 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 0691168482 0-691-16848-2 9780691168487 978-0-691-16848-7 |