Benjamin Franklin's Numbers: An Unsung Mathematical OdysseyPrinceton University Press, 12/01/2021 - 274 páginas Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In Benjamin Franklin's Numbers, Paul Pasles reveals a side of the iconic statesman, scientist, and writer that few Americans know--his mathematical side. |
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... American author Ernest Hemingway never composed a guide for writers. Indeed, the very idea was anathema to him, in part because of a superstitious fear that any such discussion of his art would destroy the thing itself, just as ...
... American primary school curriculum can tell you, here was the conqueror of all areas of human achievement. Through hard work and no small share of ingenuity, he managed to overcome a lack of formal education and define the American ...
... ignoring it outright. An exception was Carl Van Doren, whose. Fig. 1.1. Benjamin Franklin, engraving by A. H. Ritchie (after Charles Nicholas Cochin), no date. American Philosophical Society Library. |. 3 THE BOOK FRANKLIN NEVER WROTE.
... America. The review dismisses Van Doren's biography as “hopelessly inadequate” and claims that the magic squares are given too much attention. Not only are they “of no importance in the development of mathematics,” but moreover they ...
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Almanacs and Assembly | 61 |
Philomath Math | 83 |
A Visit to the Country | 117 |
The Mutation Spreads Adventures Among | 141 |
Circling the Square | 158 |
Newly Unearthed Discoveries | 191 |
Legacy | 226 |
Acknowledgements | 243 |
Index | 253 |
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