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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... fact that one-half of one-half of one-half, and so on, moves ever closer to zero. A more nuanced approach to the question of inherited characteristics would have to wait for Charles Darwin (grandson of Franklin's friend Erasmus), Gregor ...
... in a corner cell?) There are eight different answers, all equally correct, as shown in figure 1.4. Fig. 1.4. Eight solutions. In fact there is really just. Fig. 1.3. Deriving a 3 3 magic square. |. THE BOOK FRANKLIN NEVER WROTE 15.
... 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 (that is, by a mirror reflection). You can check that all three rows, all ...
... fact, and even praised a “model of scholarly workmanship.” Isis, Vol. 37, No. 1–2, 1947, pp. 85–86. 13. Carl Becker (The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas, New York: Vintage Books, 1970) and Walter ...
... fact that he refers to a constant doubling time: “doubled every twenty years,” “doubling ... once in twenty-five years.” Contrast this with arithmetic growth, where the same number of inhabitants is added every year, so that it takes ...
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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