Mathematical constants

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This is an attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.



Famous mathematical constants include the ratio of circular circumference to diameter, pi=3.14 …, and the natural logarithmic base, e=2.178 … Students and professionals usually can name at most a few others, but there are many more buried in the literature and awaiting discovery. How do such constants arise, and why are they important? Here Steven Finch provides 136 essays, each devoted to a mathematical constant or a class of constants, from the well known to the highly exotic. Topics covered include the statistics of continued fractions, chaos in nonlinear systems, prime numbers, sum-free sets, isoperimetric problems, approximation theory, self-avoiding walks and the Ising model (from statistical physics), binary and digital search trees (from theoretical computer science), the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence, complex analysis, geometric probability and the traveling salesman problem. This book will be helpful both to readers seeking information about a specific constant, and to readers who desire a panoramic view of all constants coming from a particular field, for example combinatorial enumeration or geometric optimization. Unsolved problems appear virtually everywhere as well. This is an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 augustus 2003

Aantal pagina's: 624

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Steven R. Finch

Tweede Auteur: Steven R. Finch

Hoofdredacteur: G. -C Rota

Co Redacteur: G. -C Rota

Hoofduitgeverij: Cambridge University Press

Editie: New title

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 166 mm

Product hoogte: 39 mm

Product lengte: 243 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 166 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 44 mm

Verpakking lengte: 243 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 989 g

EAN: 9780521818056

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