Benjamin Wardhaugh
Autore di Encounters With Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World
Opere di Benjamin Wardhaugh
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel (2019) 12 copie
Poor Robin's Prophesies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian England (2012) 10 copie
The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2012) 5 copie
Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music: An Essay to the Advancement of Musick and the Ensuing Controversy, 1672-3 (Music… (2013) 2 copie
Opere correlate
Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby Frs (1635-1672) (Emergence of Natural History) (2016) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 5 copie
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A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of… di Benjamin Wardhaugh
I'm a mathematician and I'm somewhat torn on this book. About 1/4 of it is interesting to me and the other 3/4 were unbearably boring.
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Detailed biography of a Georgian mathematician, from his early life in the coal mines of Tyneside, through building a career as a teacher and writer on mathematics, to his professorship at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. During which he studied the applied physics of gunpowder, ballistics, and the gravitational effects of the Scottish mountain Schiehallion.
A very detailed book. Perhaps more detail than most will need, but enjoyable. It's particularly interesting to have coverage of more of these emminent pre-Victorians, who are often overlooked.… (altro)
A very detailed book. Perhaps more detail than most will need, but enjoyable. It's particularly interesting to have coverage of more of these emminent pre-Victorians, who are often overlooked.… (altro)
A good book in order to measure the importance among different authors of Euclide's most important work. The style differs from traditional orthodoxy, but it can help to have a general background of how essential is, was, and will always be the legacy of greek geniuses.
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- Opere
- 18
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 153
- Popolarità
- #136,480
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 33
- Lingue
- 2