Benjamin Franklin's Numbers : : An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey / / Paul C. Pasles.
Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In Benjamin Franklin's Num...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (274 p.) :; 9 color plates. 50 halftones. 52 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Book Franklin Never Wrote
- 2. A Brief History of Magic
- 3. Almanacs and Assembly
- Interlude: Philomath Math
- 4. Publisher, Theorist, Inventor, Innovator
- 5. A Visit to the Country
- 6. The Mutation Spreads (Adventures Among the English)
- 7. Circling the Square
- 8. Newly Unearthed Discoveries
- 9. Legacy
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Index