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The Invention of Infinity
Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance
Av J. V. Field
Inbunden, 1997
1759 kr
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Renaissance craftsmen, such as painters, were educated in `practical mathematics'. This book tells us the fascintating story of how the artisan tradition made important contributions not only to art but also to `proper' mathematics. Beautiful works of art and famous theorems are linked together in …
Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park
An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (1945)
Av James A. Reeds, Whitfield Diffie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1684 kr
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This book is an edition of the General Report on Tunny with commentary that clarifies the often difficult language of the GRT and fitting it into a variety of contexts arising out of several separate but intersecting story lines, some only implicit in the GRT. Explores the likely roots of the ideas …
Renaissance and Revolution
Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe
Av J. V. Field, Frank A. J. L. James
Häftad, 1997
684 kr
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Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays which opens up alternative perspectives on some of the problems seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical …
Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park
An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (1945)
Av J. V. Field, Whitfield Diffie m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
1955 kr
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This book is an edition of the General Report on Tunny with commentary that clarifies the often difficult language of the GRT and fitting it into a variety of contexts arising out of several separate but intersecting story lines, some only implicit in the GRT. Explores the likely roots of the ideas …
Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park
An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (1945)
Av J. V. Field, Whitfield Diffie m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
1913 kr
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This book is an edition of the General Report on Tunny with commentary that clarifies the often difficult language of the GRT and fitting it into a variety of contexts arising out of several separate but intersecting story lines, some only implicit in the GRT. Explores the likely roots of the ideas …
Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues
E-bok, 2012
1141 kr
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Our main purpose in this book is to present an English translation of Desargues'' Rough Draft of an Essay on the results of taking plane sections of a cone (1639), the pamphlet with which the modem study of projective geometry began. Despite its acknowledged importance in the history of …
Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues
Häftad, 2011
876 kr
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Our main purpose in this book is to present an English translation of Desargues' Rough Draft of an Essay on the results of taking plane sections of a cone (1639), the pamphlet with which the modem study of projective geometry began. Despite its acknowledged importance in the history of mathematics, …
Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
Av J. V. Field
Inbunden, 2013
1970 kr
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Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler’s major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God …
Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
Av J. V. Field
E-bok, 2013
2135 kr
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Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler''s major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God …
Reading the Mind of God
Johannes Kepler and the Reform of Astronomy
Av A.E.L. Davis, J. V. Field m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
984 kr
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This volume provides a wide-ranging introduction to Kepler’s work, with essays on his religion, his cosmological theories, his work in astronomy, astrology, optics and mathematics and his interactions with Tycho Brahe and Galileo Galilei.Kepler is a major figure in the history of science. His laws …
Reading the Mind of God
Johannes Kepler and the Reform of Astronomy
Av T. J. Mahoney, J. V. Field m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
1304 kr
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This volume provides a wide-ranging introduction to Kepler’s work, with essays on his religion, his cosmological theories, his work in astronomy, astrology, optics and mathematics and his interactions with Tycho Brahe and Galileo Galilei. Kepler is a major figure in the history of science. His laws …
