Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh
| 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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Wardhaugh Benjamin
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The golden ticket [[electronic resource] ] : P, NP, and the search for the impossible / / Lance Fortnow
| 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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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 | ||
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Modernist Women Poets : Generations, Geographies and Genders
| Modernist Women Poets : Generations, Geographies and Genders |
| Autore | Dowson Jane |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
| Soggetto topico | Literature & literary studies |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Adorno
architecture Arthur Symons avant-garde ballads black poetry Caribbean poetry Charles Bernstein Charlotte Mew Chicago Christianity critical ocean studies death decadence drama ecocriticism Edna St. Vincent Millay Edwin Morgan empathy epic ethnography Exmoor female protagonists Feminism fin-de-siècle folk art gender genre geometry geomodernisms Greek gods Gwendolyn Brooks H.D. Helen in Egypt kaleidoscope Katherine Mansfield late modernism lyric M. NourbeSe Philip Marianne Moore masculinity materiality mathematics metaphor mid-Wales modernism Modernism modernist poetics modernity Moore multispecies Natasha Trethewey nationalism New York Parker pastoral place poetics poetry prime numbers race Scotland site-specific poetry Stevie Smith stone settings suicide symbolism T.S. Eliot taxonomy The Waste Land Thomas Jefferson tourism verse drama Welsh Modernism whimsy Zeta function Zong! |
| 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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| Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 | ||
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Number Theory and Symmetry
| Number Theory and Symmetry |
| Autore | Planat Michel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics & science
Research & information: general |
| Soggetto non controllato |
4-manifold topology
algebraic number asymptotic semicircular laws Baker's theorem Banach ∗-probability spaces binary periodical sequences branch coverings branched coverings C*-algebras charge as Hirzebruch defect congruences of binomial expansions Dehn surgeries fixed points for recursive functions free probability Gel'fond-Schneider theorem IC-POVMs Kaprekar constants Kaprekar transformation knot theory knots and links limited intervals logarithmic integral estimations Lucas' result on the Pascal's triangle Miller-Rabin primality test modified Sieve procedure number of generations p-adic number fields ℚp particles as 3-Braids Pólya-Hilbert conjecture primality test primality witnesses prime characteristic function prime number function Prime Number Theorem (P.N.T.) prime numbers quantum computation Riemann interferometer semicircular elements standard model of elementary particles strong pseudoprimes the pe-Pascal's triangle the semicircular law three-manifolds transcendental number twin prime numbers umbral moonshine zeta function |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557740803321 |
Planat Michel
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| Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 | ||
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