Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter [electronic resource] /
Boeyens, Jan C. A.author.
Levendis, Demetrius C.author.
Philosophers have long speculated that a link exists between natural numbers and the physical world... Pythagoras: "...all is number" John Dalton (1803): "...Atoms combine in simple numerical ratios..." Prout’s hypothesis, published anonymously in 1815: "...the elements are different aggregates of the atoms of primordial hydrogen..." Alexandre Émile Beguyer de Chancourtois (1862): "...the properties of the elements are the properties of numbers..." William Harkins (1921): "...the ratio Z/(A - Z) never exceeds the value 0.62 in atomic species..." Within this book, readers with an interest in mathematics, science or natural philosophy will find this expectation addressed...
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Number Theory Primer -- Periodic Table of the Elements -- Structure of Atomic Nuclei -- Elements of Cosmography -- The Periodic Laws -- Periodicity and Number Theory -- Properties of Atomic Matter -- The Grand Pattern -- The Golden Excess -- Chemical Periodicity.
Philosophers have long speculated that a link exists between natural numbers and the physical world... Pythagoras: "...all is number" John Dalton (1803): "...Atoms combine in simple numerical ratios..." Prout’s hypothesis, published anonymously in 1815: "...the elements are different aggregates of the atoms of primordial hydrogen..." Alexandre Émile Beguyer de Chancourtois (1862): "...the properties of the elements are the properties of numbers..." William Harkins (1921): "...the ratio Z/(A - Z) never exceeds the value 0.62 in atomic species..." Within this book, readers with an interest in mathematics, science or natural philosophy will find this expectation addressed...
Physical chemistry.
Inorganic chemistry.
Chemometrics.
Materials science.
Mathematics.
Physics.
Physical Chemistry.
Inorganic Chemistry.
Math. Applications in Chemistry.
Materials Science, general.
Mathematics, general.
Physics, general.