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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... century documents present some peculiar challenges. Often I have updated or corrected spellings, capitalization, and punctuation. In other cases, when it is not too distracting, the original text has been left unmolested, the better to ...
... century American scientist, Cadwallader Colden, avers that “Franklin could not always follow Colden's reasoning especially in mathematics. ... ”5 One recent biographer refers to “math, a scholastic deficit he never truly remedied.”6 We ...
... century; his articles and books were largely responsible for resuscitating Franklin's scientific reputation in America. The review dismisses Van Doren's biography as “hopelessly inadequate” and claims that the magic squares are given ...
... century be more than the people of England” was initially presented, in 1751, in the context of border disputes with the French: How important an affair then to Britain is the present treaty for settling the bounds between her colonies ...
... centuries, he reckons) each descendant will share in “but a 512th part” of that honor. Thus the notion of a hereditary order is not only contrary to the ideals for which the Revolution was fought, it is also contrary to mathematics ...
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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