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Indlæser... When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possibleaf Paul J. Nahin
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"I liked the mathematics up close and personal, told as a story of human activity, not a dry set of facts and formulas to be learned for the coming examination." "[T]he work is of great value to many, but most especially to the thousands of people who teach and learn calculus."
A mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve them. What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? When Least Is Best combines the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples to answer these intriguing questions and more. Paul Nahin shows how life often works at the extremes--with values becoming as small (or as large) as possible--and he considers how mathematicians over the centuries, including Descartes, Fermat, and Kepler, have grappled with these problems of minima and maxima. Throughout, Nahin examines entertaining conundrums, such as how to build the shortest bridge possible between two towns, how to vary speed during a race, and how to make the perfect basketball shot. Moving from medieval writings and modern calculus to the field of optimization, the engaging and witty explorations of When Least Is Best will delight math enthusiasts everywhere. No library descriptions found. |
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