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Nahin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (406 p.) 300 $a"A collection of challenging problems in mathematical physics that roar like lions when attacked analytically, but which purr like kittens when confronted by a high-speed electronic computer and its powerful scientific software (plus some speculations for the future from science fiction)." 311 08$a9780691144252 311 08$a0691144257 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Feynman Meets Fermat -- $t2. Just for Fun: Two Quick Number-Crunching Problems -- $t3. Computers and Mathematical Physics -- $t4. The Astonishing Problem of the Hanging Masses -- $t5. The Three-Body Problem and Computers -- $t6. Electrical Circuit Analysis and Computers -- $t7. The Leapfrog Problem -- $t8. Science Fiction: When Computers Become Like Us -- $t9. A Cautionary Epilogue -- $tAppendix -- $tSolutions to the Challenge Problems -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex -- $tAlso By Paul J. Nahin 330 $aHow 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 ideas and today's powerful computers. Some of the outcomes discussed are so counterintuitive they will leave readers astonished. Nahin looks at how the art of number-crunching has changed since the advent of computers, and how high-speed technology helps to solve fascinating conundrums such as the three-body, Monte Carlo, leapfrog, and gambler's ruin problems. Along the way, Nahin traverses topics that include algebra, trigonometry, geometry, calculus, number theory, differential equations, Fourier series, electronics, and computers in science fiction. He gives historical background for the problems presented, offers many examples and numerous challenges, supplies MATLAB codes for all the theories discussed, and includes detailed and complete solutions. 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[161]-170) and index. 327 $aRepresenting euthanasia, reclaiming popular culture -- Heteroglossia from Grimmelshausen to the Grimm brothers -- The dwarf and Nazi body politics -- Oskar's dysfunctional family and gender politics -- Oskar as fool, harlequin, and trickster, and the politics of sanity -- Gypsies, the picaresque novel, and the politics of social integration -- Epilogue: beyond Die Blechtrommel: Germans as victims in Im Krebsgang. 330 $aIn receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999, Gu?nter Grass, a prominent and controversial figure in the ongoing discussion of the German past and reunification, finally gained recognition as Germany's greatest living author, a writer of international importance and acclaim. Grass's 1959 novel 'The Tin Drum' remains one of the most important works of literature for the construction of postwar German identity. Peter Arnds offers a completely new reading of the novel, analyzing an aspect of Grass's literary treatment of German history that has never been examined in detail: the Nazi ideology of race and eugenics, which resulted in the persecution of so-called asocials as 'life unworthy of life,' their extermination in psychiatric institutions in the Third Reich, and their marginalization in the Adenauer period. Arnds shows that in order to represent the Nazi past and subvert bourgeois paradigms of rationalism, Grass revives several facets of popular culture that National Socialism either suppressed or manipulated for its ideology of racism. In structure and content Grass's novel connects the persecution of degenerate art to the persecution and extermination of these 'asocials,' for whom the persecuted dwarf-protagonist Oskar Matzerath becomes a central metaphor and voice. This comparative study reveals that Grass creates in the novel an irrational counterculture opposed to the rationalism of Nazi science and its obsession with racial hygiene, while simultaneously exposing the continuity of this destructive rationalism in postwar Germany and the absurdity of a 'Stunde Null,' that putative tabula rasa in 1945. Peter O. Arnds is associate professor of German and Italian at Kansas State University. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 517 3 $aRepresentation, Subversion, & Eugenics in Gu?nter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' 606 $aEugenics in literature 615 0$aEugenics in literature. 676 $a833/.914 686 $aGN 5052$qBSZ$2rvk 700 $aArnds$b Peter O.$f1963-$01826218 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008469203321 996 $aRepresentation, subversion, and eugenics in Gunter Grass's The tin drum$94394185 997 $aUNINA