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An edition of e: The Story of a Number (1994)

e

The Story of a Number

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The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest mathematical background, this biography brings out the central importance of e to mathematics and illuminates a golden era in the age of science.

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Princeton University Press
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English
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227

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Subjects

e, Mathematics, History, Number theory, E (The number), Transcendental numbers

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Die Zahl e: Geschichte und Geschichten
December 31, 1996, Birkhäuser Verlag
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1994, Princeton University Press
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Edition Notes

Reprint of 1994 edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219) and index.

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Princeton science library

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Dewey Decimal Class
512.7/3
Library of Congress
QA247.5 .M33 2015, QA247.5.M33 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 227 pages
Number of pages
227

ID Numbers

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OL26936791M
ISBN 10
0691168482
ISBN 13
9780691168487
LCCN
2015458669
OCLC/WorldCat
936548988

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Rarely in the history of science has an abstract mathematical idea been received more enthusiastically by the entire scientific community than the invention of logarithms.
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