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.
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 c...
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, the works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Igor Stravinsky said "musical form is close to mathematics," while Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen we
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements, t...
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly based on mathematical principles. Yet Eli Maor
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements. T...
Eli Maor se ve své knize věnuje vztahům mezi matematikou a hudbou. Nejednou čtenáři osvětlí řadu překvapivých detailů, když zkoumá, jak lze uplatnit matematický aparát v hudbě i naopak. Věnuje se například matematickému popisu vztahů mezi jednotlivými tóny, systémům ladění a jejich historickému vývoji. Píše o snaze matematiků a fyziků přesně popsat pohyb struny, prostor věnuje i zkoumání vzniku a povahy zvuku a jeho přenosu. Jinou oblastí, kde se projevují matematické zákonitosti, jsou rytmické poměry v hudbě, ale ani u nich paralely mezi...
Eli Maor se ve své knize věnuje vztahům mezi matematikou a hudbou. Nejednou čtenáři osvětlí řadu překvapivých detailů, když zkoumá, jak ...