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John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More by Norman Macrae
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Norman Macrae [Macrae, Norman]

The age requirements for appointment in the reserve corps were adopted after a thorough study of all factors involved, and have been adhered to consistently since their adoption, many applicants ...
( Category: Scientists January 25,2020 )
Infinity by Ian Stewart
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Ian Stewart

Infinite series With the rigorous formulation of the concept ‘limit’, calculus powered ahead to become just one part of a much broader area of mathematics, analysis. Limits resolved several other ...
( Category: Number Theory January 19,2020 )
Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers by Vicky Neale
epub |eng | 2017-10-04 | Author:Vicky Neale [Neale, Vicky]

Returning to our hypothetical 15-sided pencil, the theorem tells us that each of the 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13 and 14 sides contains infinitely many primes. Wow! As ...
( Category: Number Theory January 19,2020 )
Kaplan SAT® Subject Test: Mathematics Level 1 by Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Kaplan

( Category: College Entrance April 10,2018 )
Kaplan SAT® Subject Test: Mathematics Level 2 by Kaplan
epub |eng | | Author:Kaplan

( Category: College Entrance April 10,2018 )
Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism by Jody Azzouni
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jody Azzouni [Azzouni, Jody]

10 I succumbed to such a temptation, and pretty much for these reasons, at the end of my 1998. Also, compare Austin 1962, pp. 62-77, and Bennett 1969. 11 I ...
( Category: History June 7,2017 )
Perfect Rigour by Masha Gessen
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Masha Gessen

PERFECT RIGOR THE PROBLEM 8 The Problem THE VERY POSSIBILITY of mathematical science seems1 an insoluble contradiction.” So, more than a century ago, wrote Henri Poincaré, known among mathematicians as ...
( Category: History April 20,2017 )
My Search for Ramanujan by Ken Ono & Amir D. Aczel
epub |eng | | Author:Ken Ono & Amir D. Aczel

I enrolled in challenging math courses my senior year, and I made it a point to stand out. I sat in the front row. I did all the homework. I ...
( Category: Number Theory February 27,2017 )
Deep Thinking by Byers William
epub |eng | 2015-09-19 | Author:Byers, William

5.13Letting Go However just living in tension and incoherence is not enough. The creative idea is born out of intense absorption in the totality of the problematic situation. One works ...
( Category: History September 20,2016 )
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Wolfram Stephen
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-07-07 | Author:Wolfram, Stephen [Wolfram, Stephen]

* Originally written as a review of Mandelbrot’s posthumous autobiography, The Fractalist. Steve Jobs October 6, 2011 I’m so sad this evening—as millions are—to hear of Steve Jobs’s death. Scattered ...
( Category: History July 13,2016 )
Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them by Benjamin Bold
epub |eng | 1969-06-26 | Author:Benjamin Bold

PROBLEM SET VII–A 1. Construct regular polygons of 2m sides where m equals (a) 2. (b) 3. (c) 4. 2. Construct a regular polygon of 3·2m sides where m equals ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
Lectures on Elementary Mathematics by Joseph Louis Lagrange
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Joseph Louis Lagrange

From the first equation we obtain , which substituted in the second gives Removing the fractions and arranging the terms, we get finally an equation of the fourth degree with ...
( Category: College Guides June 27,2016 )
Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics by Raymond L. Wilder
epub |eng | 1952-06-26 | Author:Raymond L. Wilder

1.4.2 Consistency of the axiom system Λ Is it possible to show the axiom system Λ consistent? Here is a case where we cannot, for a model, exhibit any finite ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
Concepts of Modern Mathematics by Ian Stewart
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Ian Stewart [Stewart, Ian]

Figure 133 This is important: if we want to use paths to detect holes, the way we go round the path affects the way the path wraps around the hole. ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
Prelude to Mathematics by Sawyer W. W.;
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-18 | Author:Sawyer, W. W.;

But x and y are small. So x2, xy, y2, etc., are very small indeed, and can be neglected. To this order of approximation, f(x, y) = k + ax ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )

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