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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... later, was a landmark in the nascent field of demography, the study of human population statistics. Based on a multitude of factors (such as the heartbreakingly realistic assumption that around half of the children born would not ...
... later editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population, one of the most important works of social science in all of human history. The Malthusian notion that population may increase exponentially had been hinted at in Poor Richard's ...
... later years, Franklin made the transition from smalltime slaveholder to outspoken abolitionist, and as president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society he lobbied Congress on that issue.27 It would be the last great public act for this ...
... Later, Cohen became editor of the journal. 11. Like Van Doren, Cohen allocates approximately one thousand words to the topic. 12. I. Bernard Cohen, Benjamin Franklin's Science, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. The chapter I ...
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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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