Voltaire's Riddle

Name: Voltaire's Riddle
Brand: Mathematical Association of America
SKU: 9780883853450
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Autor: Andrew Simoson

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In 1752 Voltaire published Micromégas, the story of a 120,000-foot tall resident of a planet of Siri...

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Autor

Andrew Simoson

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2010

Pagini

396

EAN

9780883853450

ISBN

0883853450

Enbook ID

04379368

Editura

Mathematical Association of America

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Dimensiuni

174 x 247 x 24

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In 1752 Voltaire published Micromégas, the story of a 120,000-foot tall resident of a planet of Sirius who visited our solar system. As a parting gift, the visitor gave the French Academy of Sciences a book that, he said, contained the answer to all things. On examination, the book was found to be blank. This is the riddle: why was it blank? Voltaire's Riddle contains a new translation of the story and continues with a series of chapters, each of which begins with a historical or literary vignette followed by the mathematics behind it. Topics include trajectories of comets, the flattening of the Earth at the poles, Maupertius's pursuit problem, Dürer's possible use of trochoids, and the precession of the equinoxes. The book ends with possible answers to Voltaire's riddle. Readers need know little more than calculus.

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