The World of Mathematics, Vol. 2
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Product details:
- Edition number and title 2
- Edition number Unabridged
- Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
- Date of Publication 28 March 2003
- ISBN 9780486411507
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages720 pages
- Size 214x136 mm
- Weight 681 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Vol. 2 of a monumental 4-volume set covers mathematics and the physical world, mathematics and social science, and the laws of chance, with non-technical essays by eminent mathematicians, economists, scientists, and others.
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Vol. 2 of a monumental 4-volume set covers mathematics and the physical world, mathematics and social science, and the laws of chance, with non-technical essays by eminent mathematicians, economists, scientists, and others.
Vol. 2 of a monumental 4-volume set covers mathematics and the physical world, mathematics and social science, and the laws of chance, with non-technical essays by and about scores of eminent mathematicians, economists, scientists, and others. Individual articles by Galileo Galilei, Gregor Mendel, Thomas Robert Malthus, and many more. Includes numerous figures.
Table of Contents:
VOLUME TWO
PART V: Mathematics and the Physical World
Galileo Galilei: Commentary
1. Mathematics of Motion by GALILEO GALILEI
The Bernoullis: Commentary
2. Kinetic Theory of Gases by DANIEL BERNOULLI
"A Great Prize, a Long
-Suffering Inventor and the First Accurate Clock: Commentary"
3. The Longitude by LLOYD A. BROWN
John Couch Adams: Commentary
4. John Couch Adams and the Discovery of Neptune by SIR HAROLD SPENCER JONES
H. G. J. Mosley: Commentary
5. Atomic Numbers by H. G. J. MOSLEY
The Small Furniture of Earth: Commentary
6. The Röntgen Rays by SIR WILLIAM BRAGG
7. Crystals and the Future of Physics by PHILIPPE LE CORBEILLER
"Queen Dido, Soap Bubbles, and a Blind Mathematician: Commentary"
8. What Is Calculus of Variations and What Are Its Applications? By KARL MENGER
9. The Soap
-bubble by C. VERNON BOYS
10. Plateau's Problem by RICHARD COURANT and HERBERT ROBBINS
The Periodic Law and Mendeléeff: Commentary
11. Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements by DMITRI MENDELÉEFF
12. Mendeléeff by BERNARD JAFFE
Gregor Mendel: Commentary
13. Mathematics of Heredity by GREGOR MENDEL
J. B. S. Haldane: Commentary
14. On Being the Right Size by J. B. S. HALDANE
15. Mathematics of Natural Selection by J. B. S. HALDANCE
Erwin Schrödinger: Commentary
16. Heredity and the Quantum Theory by ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: Commentary
17. On Magnitude by D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON
Uncertainty: Commentary
18. The Uncertainty Principle by WERNER HEISENBERG
19. Causality and Wave Mechanics by ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington: Commentary
20. The Constants of Nature by SIR ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON
21. The New Law of Gravitation and the Old Law by SIR ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON
Commentary
22. The Theory of Relativity by CLEMENT V. DURELL
PART VI: Mathematics and Social Science
The Founder of Psychophysics: Commentary
1. Gustav Theodor Fechner by EDWIN G. BORING
Sir Francis Galton: Commentary
2. Classification of Men According to Their Natural Gifts by SIR FRANCIS GALTON
Thomas Robert Malthus: Commentary
3. Mathematics of Population and Food by THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS
"Cournot, Jevons, and the Mathematics of Money: Commentary"
4. Mathematics of Value and Demand by AUGUSTIN COURNOT
5. Theory of Political Economy by WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS
A Distinguished Quaker and War: Commentary
6. Mathematics of War and Foreign Politics by LEWIS FRY RICHARDSON
7. Statistics of Deadly Quarrels by LEWIS FRY RICHARDSON
The Social Application of Mathematics: Commentary
8. The Theory of Economic Behavior by LEONID HURWICZ
9. Theory of Games by S. VAJDA
10. Sociology Learns the Language of Mathematics by ABRAHAM KAPLAN
PART VII: The Laws of Chance
Pierre Simon de Laplace: Commentary
1. Concerning Probability by PIERRE SIMON DE LAPLACE
2. The Red and the Black by CHARLES SANDERS PIERCE
3. The Probability of Induction by CHARLES SANDER PIERCE
Lord Keynes: Commentary
4. The Applicant of Probability to Conduct by JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
An Absent
-minded Genius and the Laws of Chance: Commentary 1374
5. Chance by HENRI POINCARÉ
Ernest Nagel and the Laws of Probability: Commentary
6. The Meaning of Probability by ERNEST NAGEL
INDEX
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