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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An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles. Benjamin Franklin's Numbers An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton.
... Benjamin Franklin's numbers : an unsung mathematical odyssey / Paul C. Pasles. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12956-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-691-12956-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Franklin, Benjamin, 1706–1790 ...
... Benjamin Franklin. New biographies continue to spring forth regularly, with no end in sight. Somehow, though, the mathematical side of that great mind remains unstudied. Hence the present book, Benjamin Franklin's Numbers. Scattered ...
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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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