Benjamin Franklin's numbers : an unsung mathematical odyssey /

Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In Benjamin Franklin's Num...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pasles, Paul C., 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790.
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790
Mathematics > History.
Magic squares.
Mathematical recreations.
Mathématiques > Histoire.
Carrés magiques.
Jeux mathématiques.
magic squares.
MATHEMATICS / Arithmetic
Magic squares
Mathematical recreations
Mathematics
Academy of Philadelphia.
Adams, John.
American Philosophical Society.
Bache, Sarah Franklin.
Bragdon, Claude.
Canton, John.
Cardano, Girolamo.
Cohen, I. Bernard.
Dürer, Albrecht.
Euler, Leonhard.
Ferguson, James.
Franklin, William.
Freemasonry.
General Magazine.
Godfrey, Thomas.
Grew, Theophilus.
Hemingway, Ernest.
Hutton, Charles.
Isomura.
Jefferson, Thomas.
Jerman, John.
Keimer, Samuel.
Latin square.
Lewis and Clark.
Locke, John.
Logan, James.
Muramatsu.
National Treasure.
Newton, Isaac.
Nulty, Eugenius (Owen).
Ozanam, Jacques.
Pascal, Blaise.
Poor Job.
Poor Robin.
Poor William Birkett.
SATOR square.
complementary pairs.
cryptography.
daylight saving time.
electricity.
excentric circle.
fully magic square.
glass armonica.
infinity.
lightning rod.
magic circle.
magic square.
memetics.
pandiagonal square.
semi-magic square.
shuffleboard.
slavery.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The book Franklin never wrote
  • A brief history of magic
  • Almanacs and assembly
  • Interlude: philomath math
  • Publisher, theorist, inventor, innovator
  • A visit to the country
  • The mutation spreads (adventures among the English)
  • Circling the square
  • Newly unearthed discoveries
  • Legacy.

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