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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An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles. Benjamin Franklin's Numbers An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey Paul C. Pasles PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton.
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... published four years 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 ...
... published ... is even worse than making love too much” (p. 55). 3. Hopefully this comment does not apply to a mathematician who writes history. 4. Leonard W. Labaree et al., eds., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, New Haven and London ...
... published as “How Practical Was Benjamin Franklin's Science?” in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Oct. 1945, pp. 284–293. It is worth noting that in 1947, Cohen reviewed another work by Van Doren, the collection ...
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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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