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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... complete biography. As with all great lives, Franklin's life appears to us as a magnificent jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces missing. With this book, I hope to fit one more piece firmly in its place. Benjamin Franklin's Numbers Preface.
... complete doubling occurs approximately every twenty-three years, which falls neatly between his two estimates.16 Franklin's prediction that the population of the colonies would soon outstrip that of England was also borne out, though by ...
... complete person, and within each tiny male homunculus were even smaller homunculi, and that the entirety of the future human race was stacked like Russian dolls, ad infinitum. The successor theory recognized that both parents ...
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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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