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Number-crunching : taming unruly computational problems from mathematical physics to science fiction /

How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or eve...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nahin, Paul J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or every photo ever taken? These are just some of the intriguing questions that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin tackles in Number-Crunching. Through brilliant math ideas and entertaining stories, Nahin demonstrates how odd and unusual math problems can be solved by bringing together basic physics i.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxvi, 376 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400839582
1400839580
9781283152525
1283152525
9786613152527
6613152528