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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... questions. You may decide to attempt some, all, or none of these exercises, depending on your personal preferences (and your mathematical background); but at least read them, to see what mathematics can do. Their actual solution is not ...
... questions were addressed by him there.18 Seemingly out of place in a popular almanac, Franklin's ramblings on such topics illuminate some of the mathematical underpinnings of his little excursion into population statistics. As with the ...
... question as an arithmetic problem. Did the sons and grandsons of distinguished veterans deserve to reap the fruits of their fathers' victories? Certainly not, said Franklin, for “descending honours” was a ludicrous notion. While great ...
... question of inherited characteristics would have to wait for Charles Darwin (grandson of Franklin's friend Erasmus), Gregor Mendel, and their scientific descendants. Heritable traits are transmitted in a far more subtle and complex way ...
... question: Isn't the definition redundant? Isn't every “array” automatically rectangular? But one can certainly envision arrangements into other shapes. As you'll see in chapter 7, for instance, Franklin constructed a rather ingenious ...
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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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