Mathematical constants /

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Author / Creator:	Finch, Steven R., 1959- author.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003-2019.
Description:	2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 94, 169 Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 94, 169.
Subject:	Mathematical constants. Mathematical constants.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4953807

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ISBN:	9780521818056 0521818052 9781108470599 1108470599
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Finite 2018
Summary:	Famous mathematical constants include the ratio of circular circumference to diameter, pi=3.14 ..., and the natural logarithmic base, e=2.178 ... Students and professionals usually can name at most a few others, but there are many more buried in the literature and awaiting discovery. How do such constants arise, and why are they important? Here Steven Finch provides 136 essays, each devoted to a mathematical constant or a class of constants, from the well known to the highly exotic. Topics covered include the statistics of continued fractions, chaos in nonlinear systems, prime numbers, sum-free sets, isoperimetric problems, approximation theory, self-avoiding walks and the Ising model (from statistical physics), binary and digital search trees (from theoretical computer science), the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence, complex analysis, geometric probability and the traveling salesman problem. This book will be helpful both to readers seeking information about a specific constant, and to readers who desire a panoramic view of all constants coming from a particular field, for example combinatorial enumeration or geometric optimization. Unsolved problems appear virtually everywhere as well. This is an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.

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