Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics, Hardcover - Ekkehard Kopp

Reducere. Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting w...

Reducere. Making up Numbers: A History of Invention in Mathematics offers a detailed but accessible account of a wide range of mathematical ideas. Starting w...

Portfolio Theory and Risk Management - Maciej J. Capinski, Ekkehard Kopp

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Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms--Yhwh, God, or Allah-...

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A history of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, as well as an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas a...

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This book contains a complete detailed description of two classes of special numbers closely related to classical problems of the Theory of Primes....

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