Calendrical Calculations 3rd Edition Hardback - Hardcover

Dershowitz; Reingold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052188540X ISBN 13: 9780521885409

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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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.

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'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

Biografía del autor:

In addition to his expertise on calendars, Nachum Dershowitz is a leading figure in software verification in general, and termination of programs in particular; he is an international authority on equational inference and term-rewriting. Other research interests of his include program semantics and combinatorial enumeration. Dershowitz has authored or co-authored over one hundred research papers and several books and has held visiting positions at prominent institutions around the globe. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. He was born in 1951 and his graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics are from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052188540X
• ISBN 13: 9780521885409
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512