epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Hawking

SELECTION FROM OEUVRES COMPLÈTES D’AUGUSTIN CAUCHY DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS * THIRD LECTURE[1] DERIVATIVES OF FUNCTIONS OF ONLY ONE VARIABLE Whenever the function y = f(x) remains continuous between two given limits ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Dormehl, Luke [Dormehl, Luke]

The Prius and the Learning Tree On the surface, the idea that we should be able to enforce laws by algorithm makes a lot of sense. Since legal reasoning is ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Strogatz, Steven [Strogatz, Steven]

where x is a city’s size, y is how many cities have that size, C is a constant, and the exponent a (the power in the power law) is the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Plato

* * * One more aspect of the Timaeus remains to be considered--the mythological or geographical. Is it not a wonderful thing that a few pages of one of Plato's ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alex Bellos

It gives an approximation for the value of n!, the factorial of n, which as we saw above is the number you get when you multiply 1 × 2 × ...

mobi |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:Nagel, Ernest & James R. Newman & Douglas R. Hofstadter [Nagel, Ernest]

VII Gödel’s Proofs Gödel’s paper is difficult. Forty-six preliminary definitions, together with several important preliminary propositions, must be mastered before the main results are reached. We shall take a much ...

azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2003-09-23 | Author:Mario Livio

Another major Renaissance figure who entertained an intriguing combination of artistic and mathematical interests is the German painter Albrecht Dürer. Dürer is considered by many to be the greatest German ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Alexander, Amir [Alexander, Amir]

TWO DREAMS OF MODERNITY By the 1670s the war over the infinitely small had ended. With Angeli at long last silenced, and all the Jesuits’ rivals driven underground or melting ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Marciano, John Bemelmans

Europe Divided and United As the 1867 Exposition Universelle entered its final month, the International Conference on Geodesy got under way in Berlin. It was part of the largest cooperative, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-31 | Author:Zvi Artstein

The fact that a donor's blood sample is tested, in other words the subject, that is, the donor, is chosen almost randomly, is an important fact of the analysis (it ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Mazur, Joseph

But, then, why did Bombelli give us the following long list of redundant products of dignità? It looks as if figure 14.2 represents a doodling account of sheep to put ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Cooke, Roger L.

Chapter 27 Islamic Geometry In the Western world, most of the progress in geometry during the millennium that passed between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the fall ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:Dhaval Bathia

(b) 57 × 57 (AB – 100, WB – 100/2 = 50) (c) 395 × 396 (AB -100, WB -100 × 4 = 400) (d) 228 × 246 (AB - ...

epub |eng | | Author:E.T. Bell

There are one or two simple matters to be disposed of before we come to Lobatchewsky’s Copernican part in the extension of geometry. We have alluded to “equivalents” of the ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-03 | Author:Norman Madarasz & Alain Badiou [Madarasz, Norman & Badiou, Alain]

5. The human intellect can also be defined by coupling. The immediate upshot of this is that the only points of truth are axiomatic and general. The singular is subtracted ...