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When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
When Least Is Best How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small as Possible - or as Large
Author: Paul J. Nahin
What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows look like in the future? Why do soap bubbles have a shape that gives them the least area? By combining the mathematical history of extrema with contem...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691130521
ISBN-10: 0691130523
Publication Date: 7/2/2007
Pages: 400
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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