Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh |
Autore | Wardhaugh Benjamin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) : 34 b/w illus |
Disciplina | 516.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Geometry
Mathematics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Early works. |
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Alfred North Whitehead
Baruch Spinoza Bodleian Library Copernicus Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclidean geometry Galileo Galilei Galileo Hobbes Johannes Kepler Kepler Platonic solids Proclus Ptolemaic Egypt Pythagorean theorem Spinoza Thales' theorem Thomas Hobbes Vatican Library book history geometric algebra golden ratio great books history of math history of mathematics history of the book lemma logic mathematical proofs music theory parallel postulate perspective plane geometry prime numbers |
ISBN | 0-691-21981-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- I: AUTHOR -- Alexandria -- Elephantine -- Hypsicles -- Theon of Alexandria -- Stephanos the scribe -- Al-Hajjaj -- Adelard -- Erhard Ratdolt -- Marget Seymer her hand -- Edward Bernard -- Interlude -- II: SAGE -- Plato -- Proclus Diadochus -- Hroswitha of Gandersheim -- Rabbi Levi ben Gershom -- Christoph Clavius -- Xu Guangqi -- Blame not our author -- Baruch Spinoza -- Anne Lister -- Interlude -- III: HERO -- Petechonsis -- Dividing the monochord -- Hyginus -- Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani -- Lady Geometria -- Piero della Francesca -- Euclid Speidell -- Isaac Newton -- Interlude -- IV: SHADOW AND MASK -- Mary Fairfax -- François Peyrard -- Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii -- Maggie and Tom -- Simson in Urdu -- His modern rivals -- Thomas Little Heath -- Max Ernst -- Euclidean designs -- Lambda -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Notes on Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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The golden ticket [[electronic resource] ] : P, NP, and the search for the impossible / / Lance Fortnow |
Autore | Fortnow Lance <1963-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
Disciplina | 511.3/52 |
Soggetto topico |
NP-complete problems
Computer algorithms |
Soggetto non controllato |
Facebook
Frenemy Hamiltonian paths Internet Ketan Mulmuley Leonid Levin Martin Hellman NP problem NP problems NP-complete problems NP-complete P versus NP problem P versus NP Richard Feynman Steve Cook Urbana algorithm Whitfield Diffie academic work algebraic geometry algorithm algorithms approximation big data computational problems computer science computers computing cryptography cryptosystem database decryption digital computers efficient algorithms efficient computation encryption factoring fast computers graph isomorphism heuristics linear programming mathematics max-cut network security networking new technologies parallel computation perebor prime numbers problems programming public-key cryptography quantum computers quantum computing quantum cryptography quantum mechanics quantum physical systems research community secret messages social networking data solution teleportation |
ISBN |
1-4008-4661-7
1-299-15656-8 |
Classificazione | COM051300MAT015000MAT017000MAT034000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Golden Ticket -- Chapter 2 The Beautiful World -- Chapter 3 P and NP -- Chapter 4 The Hardest Problems in NP -- Chapter 5 The Prehistory of P versus NP -- Chapter 6 Dealing with Hardness -- Chapter 7 Proving P ≠ NP -- Chapter 8 Secrets -- Chapter 9 Quantum -- Chapter 10 The Future -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter Notes and Sources -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779319903321 |
Fortnow Lance <1963->
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The golden ticket : P, NP, and the search for the impossible / / Lance Fortnow |
Autore | Fortnow Lance <1963-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (189 p.) |
Disciplina | 511.3/52 |
Soggetto topico |
NP-complete problems
Computer algorithms |
Soggetto non controllato |
Facebook
Frenemy Hamiltonian paths Internet Ketan Mulmuley Leonid Levin Martin Hellman NP problem NP problems NP-complete problems NP-complete P versus NP problem P versus NP Richard Feynman Steve Cook Urbana algorithm Whitfield Diffie academic work algebraic geometry algorithm algorithms approximation big data computational problems computer science computers computing cryptography cryptosystem database decryption digital computers efficient algorithms efficient computation encryption factoring fast computers graph isomorphism heuristics linear programming mathematics max-cut network security networking new technologies parallel computation perebor prime numbers problems programming public-key cryptography quantum computers quantum computing quantum cryptography quantum mechanics quantum physical systems research community secret messages social networking data solution teleportation |
ISBN |
1-4008-4661-7
1-299-15656-8 |
Classificazione | COM051300MAT015000MAT017000MAT034000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Golden Ticket -- Chapter 2 The Beautiful World -- Chapter 3 P and NP -- Chapter 4 The Hardest Problems in NP -- Chapter 5 The Prehistory of P versus NP -- Chapter 6 Dealing with Hardness -- Chapter 7 Proving P ≠ NP -- Chapter 8 Secrets -- Chapter 9 Quantum -- Chapter 10 The Future -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter Notes and Sources -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818849503321 |
Fortnow Lance <1963->
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Modernist Women Poets : Generations, Geographies and Genders |
Autore | Dowson Jane |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (198 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Literature & literary studies |
Soggetto non controllato |
H.D.
Helen in Egypt Adorno late modernism epic avant-garde Gwendolyn Brooks architecture modernity Chicago Katherine Mansfield symbolism fin-de-siècle decadence modernism poetry Arthur Symons Stevie Smith T.S. Eliot The Waste Land Greek gods female protagonists Christianity suicide death Charlotte Mew Modernism empathy Edna St. Vincent Millay masculinity lyric drama verse drama gender genre race tourism taxonomy poetics Marianne Moore Natasha Trethewey Thomas Jefferson Scotland ballads kaleidoscope Charles Bernstein Edwin Morgan folk art Welsh Modernism Feminism nationalism ethnography geomodernisms modernist poetics Caribbean poetry Zong! M. NourbeSe Philip black poetry critical ocean studies multispecies materiality ecocriticism Moore Parker whimsy New York geometry place site-specific poetry mathematics metaphor Exmoor mid-Wales stone settings Zeta function prime numbers pastoral |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Modernist Women Poets |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557298803321 |
Dowson Jane
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Number Theory and Symmetry |
Autore | Planat Michel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (206 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Mathematics & science |
Soggetto non controllato |
quantum computation
IC-POVMs knot theory three-manifolds branch coverings Dehn surgeries zeta function Pólya-Hilbert conjecture Riemann interferometer prime numbers Prime Number Theorem (P.N.T.) modified Sieve procedure binary periodical sequences prime number function prime characteristic function limited intervals logarithmic integral estimations twin prime numbers free probability p-adic number fields ℚp Banach ∗-probability spaces C*-algebras semicircular elements the semicircular law asymptotic semicircular laws Kaprekar constants Kaprekar transformation fixed points for recursive functions Baker’s theorem Gel’fond–Schneider theorem algebraic number transcendental number standard model of elementary particles 4-manifold topology particles as 3-Braids branched coverings knots and links charge as Hirzebruch defect umbral moonshine number of generations the pe-Pascal’s triangle Lucas’ result on the Pascal’s triangle congruences of binomial expansions primality test Miller–Rabin primality test strong pseudoprimes primality witnesses |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557740803321 |
Planat Michel
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