Gamma
Subtitle: Exploring Euler's Constant
Contributors: Freeman Dyson (Foreword)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691099835
Subjects: Calculus & mathematical analysis; History of specific subjects; Popular science; Mathematical constants; Arithmetic; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Applied; Euler, Leonhard; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Mathematics / History; History & Philosophy; 1707-1783; Euler, Leonhard,
First sentence: In an age when a 'computer' is taken to mean a machine rather than a person and calculations of fantastic complexity are routine and executed at lightning speed, constricting difficulties with ordinary arithmetic seem (and are) extremely remote.