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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... 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 “seasoning.” He argues by the numbers.25 Elsewhere ...
... eight spaces, use pairs: 1 and 9, then 2 and 8, then 3 and 7, and finally 4 and 6. (For extra credit: Why can't the number 1 appear in a corner cell?) There are eight different answers, all equally correct, as shown in figure 1.4. Fig ...
An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles. Fig. 1.4. Eight solutions. In fact there is really just one answer, in a sense, because all the other solutions are obtained either by rotating the first solution or else by flipping it over ...
... , for he does not explain it, other than to say that he assumes eight children to a marriage, of whom four survive. 16. The census figures themselves show an increase varying between. |. 17 THE BOOK FRANKLIN NEVER WROTE.
... eight data points, with R2 0.998.) 17. In the 1830s, the American population did surpass the British. 18. Poor Richard Improved ... for the Year of Our Lord 1750, Franklin and Hall, 1749. 19. That he believed growth to be exponential is ...
Índice
20 | |
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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