Calendrical Calculations - Softcover

Dershowitz, Nachum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521702380 ISBN 13: 9780521702386

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Calendrical Calculations Expanded coverage includes generic cyclical calendars, astronomical lunar calendars, and the Korean, Vietnamese, Aztec, and Tibetan calendars. Full description

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Review:

'Because years, months, and days don't mesh simply, calendar making has been a challenge throughout history. Reingold and Dershowitz's compendium, here in its third edition, has already established itself as the definitive reference on calendrical structures. Their manual displays conversions between all the major calendar systems as well as between many fascinating schemes from bygone civilizations.' Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

'One of the most fascinating books I've read all year. Takes chronology into the computer age with impressive erudition and elan. Just finding out what the calendar rules are is usually close to impossible: Calendrical Calculations tells you how to use them too. A must for everyone who worries about days, months, years – and why they never quite fit.' Ian Stewart

' ... a good, comprehensive documentation of software for calculating dates on very many calendars.' P. Kenneth Seidelmann, Director of Astrometry, U.S. Naval Observatory

'... something of immense value ... a true labor of love, this cultural service to humanity should be in every library of the world.' Choice

'If you are interested in Calendars this book is a must have - an excellent mind-broadening book.' Journal of the ACCU

' ... this book must surely become the standard work on calendar conversions. No historian, chronologist or recreational mathematician should be without it.' E. G. Richards, Nature

Book Description:

This new edition of the popular calendars book expands the algorithmic treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants: generic cyclical calendars and astronomical lunar calendars as well as the Korean, Vietnamese, Aztec, and Tibetan calendars. LISP code for all the algorithms are available on the Web.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521702380
• ISBN 13: 9780521702386
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 512