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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... and a young Colonel Washington served. That same prediction appeared later on in a very different context. An anonymous letter co-written by Franklin to the London Public Advertiser in 1770 used the. |. 7 THE BOOK FRANKLIN NEVER WROTE.
An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles. Franklin to the London Public Advertiser in 1770 used the idea to argue against taxation without representation: The British subjects on the west side of the Atlantic see no reason why they ...
... London Chronicle (1772), he writes that “there are now eight hundred and fifty thousand negroes in the English islands and colonies. ... [The] yearly importation is about one hundred thousand, of which one third perish” in transit or ...
... , The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972, Vol. 16, p. 81. Henceforth this source will be abbreviated Papers. 5. Unsigned preface to The Letters and Papers of Cadwallader. | 16 CHAPTER 1.
... London: Henry Colburn, Vol. 2, 1817, pp. 106–107. 24. Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, 1751 (published 1755). 25. The London Chronicle, June 18–20, 1772, as reprinted in the Papers, 1976, Vol. 19, pp. 187–188; also pp ...
Índice
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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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