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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... once wrote: When will princes learn arithmetic enough to calculate, if they want pieces of one another's territory, how much cheaper it would be to buy them, than to make war for them, even though they were to give a hundred years ...
... former almanac writer who had once intoned: “Nor let me Africa's sable Children see, vended for Slaves though formed by Nature free.”28 The tendency to think in a precise, rational way about. |. 9 THE BOOK FRANKLIN NEVER WROTE.
... Once you know that the rows, columns, and diagonals each add up to 15, it's possible to determine what number is placed in the middle of the grid. The key is to look at the middle row across, the middle column down, and both diagonals ...
... once in twenty-five years.” Contrast this with arithmetic growth, where the same number of inhabitants is added every year, so that it takes longer and longer for the population to double as time passes. (Perhaps Franklin's awareness of ...
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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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