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Hardback. Condition: Good. The story of pi has been told many times, both in scholarly works and in popular books. But its close relative, the number e, has fared less well. Despite the central role it plays in mathematics, its history has never before been written for a general audience. The present work fills this gap. Geared to the reader with only a modest background in mathematics, the book describes the story of e from a human as well as a mathematical perspective. In a sense, it is the story of an entire period in the history of mathematics, from the early 17th to the late 19th century, with the invention of calculus at its centre. Many of the players who took part in this story are brought to life. Among them are John Napier, the eccentric religious activist who invented logarithms and - unknowingly - came within a hair's breadth of discovering e; William Oughtred, the inventor of the slide rule; Newton and his bitter priority dispute with Leibniz over the invention of calculus, a conflict that impeded British mathematics for more than a century; and Jacob Bernoulli.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Tells the stories of how Kepler's misguided theology led him to the laws of planetary motion; of obscure Jeremiah Horrocks; of the unfortunate Le Gentil; of David Rittenhouse, Father of American Astronomy; and of Maximilian Hell. This work also guides readers to the Venus transits in 2004 and 2012.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Among the topics covered are: Absolute value, Binomial Theorem, Derivative, Exponential growth, Greatest integer function, Implicit differentiation, Integration, Law of Cosines, Linear function, Parabola, Polynomial functions, Second derivative, Velocity. Biographies include: Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705) Rene Descartes (1596-1650) Eudoxus of Cnidus (ca. 408-355 BCE) Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Francois Viete (1540-1603) John Wallis (1616-1703).…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sun flower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number "e". In this informal history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for the reader with only a modest background in mathematics and illuminates a golde era in the age of science.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Presents both a survey of the elements of trigonometry and an account of its contribution to science and social development. This book shows how Greek astronomers developed the first true trigonometry. It traces the emergence of trigonometry, its origins in Renaissance Europe's quest for accurate artillery, precise clocks, and musical instruments.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. The story of pi has been told many times, both in scholarly works and in popular books. But its close relative, the number e, has fared less well. Despite the central role it plays in mathematics, its history has never before been written for a general audience. The present work fills this gap. Geared to the reader with only a modest background in mathematics, the book describes the story of e from a human as well as a mathematical perspective. In a sense, it is the story of an entire period in the history of mathematics, from the early 17th to the late 19th century, with the invention of calculus at its centre. Many of the players who took part in this story are brought to life. Among them are John Napier, the eccentric religious activist who invented logarithms and - unknowingly - came within a hair's breadth of discovering e; William Oughtred, the inventor of the slide rule; Newton and his bitter priority dispute with Leibniz over the invention of calculus, a conflict that impeded British mathematics for more than a century; and Jacob Bernoulli.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Tells the stories of how Kepler's misguided theology led him to the laws of planetary motion; of obscure Jeremiah Horrocks; of the unfortunate Le Gentil; of David Rittenhouse, Father of American Astronomy; and of Maximilian Hell. This work also guides readers to the Venus transits in 2004 and 2012.…

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