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The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the cur
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Eli Maor
Preface Prologue Ch. 1. The Dreamer Ch. 2. Dawn of a New Cosmology Ch. 3. A Sight Never Seen Before Ch. 4. Venus Stripped Bare Solar and Stellar Parallax Ch. 5. The Dance of Two Planets Ch. 6. A Call for Action Ch. 7. Venus Returns Ch. 8. A Second Ch
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https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19fvxsh
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19fvxsh
Autor:
Eli Maor, Eugen Jost
A fascinating exploration of the pentagon and its role in various culturesThe pentagon and its close cousin, the pentagram, have inspired individuals for the last two and half millennia, from mathematicians and philosophers to artists and naturalists
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Eli Maor
A fun, entertaining exploration of the ideas and people behind the growth of trigonometryTrigonometry has a reputation as a dry, difficult branch of mathematics, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In Trigonometric Deligh
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Eli Maor
An exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematicsBy any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric
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Eli Maor
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said'musical form
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Eli Maor
Publikováno v:
Journal of Scholarly Publishing. 44:340-354
Mention the word ‘Yiddish’ and images of literary works—novels and plays, short stories and drama, and works on Jewish history—instantly come to mind. But science? Certainly this was not a subject most East European Jews were interested in—