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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... is the central thesis of this book that Ben Franklin possessed a mathematical mind. His numerical creations were few, but those that survive demonstrate a feel for number patterns that is unmatched even. |. CHAPTER 1 2.
An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles. demonstrate a feel for number patterns that is unmatched even among many who dedicate their professional lives to mathematics. How much more wonderful, then, that someone who could have ...
... number relationships, and these experiments occupied his thoughts periodically for more than half of his long life, as the present book will prove for the first time. Those magic squares indicate a skill in solving basic algebraic ...
... number of inhabitants in the colonies would “in another century be more than the people of England” was initially presented, in 1751, in the context of border disputes with the French: How important an affair then to Britain is the ...
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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