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When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible - Hardcover

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Nahin, Paul J.

 
9780691070780: When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691070784 ISBN 13: 9780691070780
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2003

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Looks at optimization through the history of mathematics and contemporary examples.

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Paul J. Nahin is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One, Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers, and Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills (all Princeton).

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"This is a delightful account of how the concepts of maxima, minima, and differentiation evolved with time. The level of mathematical sophistication is neither abstract nor superficial and it should appeal to a wide audience."--Ali H. Sayed, University of California, Los Angeles

"When Least Is Best is an illustrative historical walk through optimization problems as solved by mathematicians and scientists. Although many of us associate solving optimization with calculus, Paul J. Nahin shows here that many key problems were posed and solved long before calculus was developed."--Mary Ann B. Freeman, Math Team Development Manager, Mathworks

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"This is a delightful account of how the concepts of maxima, minima, and differentiation evolved with time. The level of mathematical sophistication is neither abstract nor superficial and it should appeal to a wide audience."--Ali H. Sayed, University of California, Los Angeles

"When Least Is Best is an illustrative historical walk through optimization problems as solved by mathematicians and scientists. Although many of us associate solving optimization with calculus, Paul J. Nahin shows here that many key problems were posed and solved long before calculus was developed."--Mary Ann B. Freeman, Math Team Development Manager, Mathworks

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691070784
ISBN 13 
9780691070780
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
328
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