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A motif of mathematics: [history and application of the mediant and the Farey sequence]
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Table of Contents

The mediant. Non-arithemetised mathematics ; Ratio, proportion and fraction ; Definition of the mediant ; A sequence of vulgar fractions ; Nicolas Chuquet, and the règle des nombres moyens ; Rational approximation ; The mediant and the continued fraction ; John Wallis, Savilian Chair of Geometry ; Digit generation ; The Möbius transformation ; Mediant convergents ; The Simpson paradox ; A motif of mathematics
History of the Farey sequence. Mr. R. Flitcon and question 281 ; Charles Haros, géomètre ; "Tables pour évaluer une fraction ordinaire ..." ; "Tables for evaluating a common fraction ..." ; The Farey sequence as the argument of a mathematical table ; "Instruction abrégée sur les nouvelles measures ..." ; Computing logarithms ; General purpose root finder ; Haros' publications ; The Bureau du Cadastre ; Grandes tables du Cadastre ; Sources of inspiration ; Bookends on the era of organized scientific computation ; Henry Goodwyn, Brewer and table maker ; The dispersal of Goodwyn's archive ; Goodwyn's publications ; "On the quotient arising from the division of an unit .." ; Goodwyn and the mediant property ; Decimalization of the pound sterling ; John Farey, geologist and musicologist ; "On a curious property of vulgar fractions" ; "Proof of a curious theorem regarding numbers" ; Delambre and Tilloch weigh in ; Farey's publications ; History's grudge against John Farey, Sr.
The table makers. Archibald's Mathematical table makers ; Lehmer's Guide to the tables in the theory of numbers ; Tables of tables ; Neville's tables ; The Farey series of order 1025 ; Reviews of The Farey series of order 1025 ; Solving Diophantine equations ; Rectangular-polar conversion tables ; Reviews of Rectangular-polar conversion tables ; Moritz Stern and Achille Brocot ; Gears and rational approximation
Inventions and applications. Sampling algorithm ; Dithering algorithm ; Decimal-to-fraction conversion ; Analog-to-digital conversion ; Slash arithmetic and mediant rounding ; Patterns for weaving ; Networks of resistors
The mediant and the Riemann hypothesis. Jérôme Franel, Chair for Mathematics in the French language ; "The Farey series and the prime numbers problem" ; A synopsis of Franel's proof ; "Remarks concerning the earlier paper by Mr. Franel" ; Neville's search for structure ; Capturing regularization
Explorations and pereginations. The integer part function ; Mediant factorization ; The Mayer-Erdös constant ; Ocagne's recursion ; Primes and twin primes ; The fractional part function ; Final words
Appendix A. Landau's proof of Franel's two dimensional integral
Appendix B. "Some consequences of the Riemann hypothesis".

Edition Notes

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and index.

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Boston

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Library of Congress
QA241 .G864 2011, QA241.G864 2011

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xx, 243 p :
Number of pages
243

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OL25403345M
ISBN 10
1453810579
ISBN 13
9781453810576
LCCN
2011279122
OCLC/WorldCat
765912661, 682995834

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