Nathaniel Bowditch and the power of numbers : how a nineteenth-century man of business, science, and the sea changed American life /

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"Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a mathematician, astronomer, and insurance executive--and a major agent of Enlightenment-era change ... took his personal work habits and blended them with the certainty and predictability of the science that he studied, creating something completely new for his...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thornton, Tamara Plakins, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Temas:
Bowditch, Nathaniel, > 1773-1838.
Bowditch, Nathaniel, > 1773-1838
Astronomers > United States > Biography.
Mathematicians > United States > Biography.
Industrial organization > United States > History.
Astronomes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Mathématiciens > États-Unis > Biographies.
Industrie > Organisation, contrôle, etc. > États-Unis > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
HISTORY > Military > Naval.
Astronomers
Industrial organization
Mathematicians
United States
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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