Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's bestselling math writers
Curves for the Mathematically Curious is an enticing collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical interest, and because many are downright beautiful. Each chapter of this anthology gives an account of the history and definition of each curve, providing a glimpse into the elegant and often surprising mathematics involved in their creation and evolution. In telling the ten stories, Havil visits many mathematicians and other innovators, some whose fame has withstood the passing of years, others who have blended into comparative obscurity. As well as the numerous mathematicians, you will meet in particular Pierre B zier, whose name is perpetuated though his ubiquitous and eponymous curves, and Adolphe Quetelet, who trumpeted the ubiquity of the Normal curve but whose name now hides behind the modern body mass index. These and other ingenious thinkers contributed to the challenges, incongruities, and insights to be found in this study of these remarkable curves--and now you can share in this adventure.
Curves for the Mathematically Curious is a rigorous and enriching mathematical experience for anyone interested in curves, and the book is designed so that the reader who chooses can follow the details with pencil and paper. Every curve has a story worthy of telling. This compendium tells the stories of ten remarkable curves personally selected by one of today's best-loved writers of popular mathematics.
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Описание: In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines how people live with—rather than die from—hunger. Through tracing the seasonal cycles of drought, plenty, and suffering and the political cycles of elections, development, and state extraction, Phillips studies hunger as a pattern of relationships and practices that organizes access to food and profoundly shapes agrarian lives and livelihoods. Amid extreme inequality and unpredictability, rural people pursue subsistence by alternating between—and sometimes combining—rights and reciprocity, a political form that she calls "subsistence citizenship." Phillips argues that studying subsistence is essential to understanding the persistence of global poverty, how people vote, and why development projects succeed or fail.
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