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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Feynman Meets Fermat; 2 Just for Fun: Two Quick Number-Crunching Problems; 3 Computers and Mathematical Physics; 4 The Astonishing Problem of the Hanging Masses; 5 The Three-Body Problem and Computers; 6 Electrical Circuit Analysis and Computers; 7 The Leapfrog Problem; 8 Science Fiction: When Computers Become Like Us; 9 A Cautionary Epilogue; Appendix: (FPU Computer Experiment MATLAB Code); Solutions to the Challenge Problems; Acknowledgments; Index; Also by Paul J. Nahin.