Andrew Simoson

Gebundenes Buch

Voltaire's Riddle

Beschreibung

Did you know that Voltaire was the first to publish the legend of Isaac Newton discovering gravity upon seeing an apple fall? That he tried for about eight years to be a mathematician. That in 1752 he wrote Micromegas, a story about a French expedition to the arctic (1736-7) whose purpose was to test Newton’s controversial theories about gravity? This book is about that story and its underlying mathematics.

Autor

Andrew Simoson earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics under Leonard Asimow at the University of Wyoming in 1979, working on extensions of separating theorems in functional analysis. Since then, he has been chairman of the mathematics department at King College in Bristol, Tennessee, and has authored over thirty papers in various mathematical journals. He has twice been a Fulbright professor, at the University of Botswana, 1990-91, and at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, 1997-98.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9780883853450
• ISBN-10: 0883853450
• Artikelnr.: 33236926