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Languages : en
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La Solidaridad. V.1 -1889-
Author: Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: The First Filipino
Author: Leon Ma GuerreroPublisher: Guerrero Publishing
ISBN: 9719341874
Category : Nationalists
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American CollectionPublisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Subject-index of the London Library, St. James's Square, London
Author: London LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Mi Ultimo Adiós
Author: José RizalUnion List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada
Author: Edna Brown TitusPublisher: New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
This edition, representing 956 libraries and 156,449 titles, incorporates the 2nd ed. (1943) and its two supplements together with new titles and additional locations.
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: K G Saur BooksPublisher: K. G. Saur
ISBN: 9783598117121
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia
Author: Nicholas TarlingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This history covers mainland and island Southeast Asia from Burma to Indonesia. Volume I is from prehistory to c1500. Volume II discusses the area's interaction with foreign countries from c1500-c1800. Volume III charts the colonial regimes of 1800-1930 and Volume IV is from World War II to 1999.
An Imaginary Tale
Author: Paul NahinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400833892
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i. He recreates the baffling mathematical problems that conjured it up, and the colorful characters who tried to solve them. In 1878, when two brothers stole a mathematical papyrus from the ancient Egyptian burial site in the Valley of Kings, they led scholars to the earliest known occurrence of the square root of a negative number. The papyrus offered a specific numerical example of how to calculate the volume of a truncated square pyramid, which implied the need for i. In the first century, the mathematician-engineer Heron of Alexandria encountered I in a separate project, but fudged the arithmetic; medieval mathematicians stumbled upon the concept while grappling with the meaning of negative numbers, but dismissed their square roots as nonsense. By the time of Descartes, a theoretical use for these elusive square roots--now called "imaginary numbers"--was suspected, but efforts to solve them led to intense, bitter debates. The notorious i finally won acceptance and was put to use in complex analysis and theoretical physics in Napoleonic times. Addressing readers with both a general and scholarly interest in mathematics, Nahin weaves into this narrative entertaining historical facts and mathematical discussions, including the application of complex numbers and functions to important problems, such as Kepler's laws of planetary motion and ac electrical circuits. This book can be read as an engaging history, almost a biography, of one of the most evasive and pervasive "numbers" in all of mathematics. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.