Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 376 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691144257
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1283152525
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1400839580
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9780691144252
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9781283152525
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9781400839582
Inhalt:
How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or every photo ever taken? These are just some of the intriguing questions that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin tackles in Number-Crunching. Through brilliant math ideas and entertaining stories, Nahin demonstrates how odd and unusual math problems can be solved by bringing together basic physics i
Inhalt:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Feynman Meets Fermat; 2 Just for Fun: Two Quick Number-Crunching Problems; 3 Computers and Mathematical Physics; 4 The Astonishing Problem of the Hanging Masses; 5 The Three-Body Problem and Computers; 6 Electrical Circuit Analysis and Computers; 7 The Leapfrog Problem; 8 Science Fiction: When Computers Become Like Us; 9 A Cautionary Epilogue; Appendix: (FPU Computer Experiment MATLAB Code); Solutions to the Challenge Problems; Acknowledgments; Index; Also by Paul J. Nahin
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780691144252
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nahin, Paul J Number-crunching Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic book
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Nahin, Paul J. 1940-
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