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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... (figure 1.2); to the tables of calendars, currency, and kings that filled Poor Richard's almanacs between 1733 and 1758; to his magical squares. The word “matrix” had not yet acquired its modern meaning at that time—in the printing trade ...
... figure 1.3). Now you could take the easy way, and just write the number 1 in every space, but most people wouldn't find that to be a very impressive solution. It makes more sense to fill these nine spaces with the first nine counting ...
... 1 appear 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.
... % statistic is unknown, 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 ...
An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles. 16. The census figures themselves show an increase varying between 77.04% and 84.28%, but a standard statistical approach leads one to the conclusion that 80.45% is the correct figure. (For ...
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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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