When Least Is Best
Subtitle: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780691130521
Subjects: History of mathematics; Optimization; Popular science; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; History & Philosophy; Applied Science and Engineering; Mathematics / History; Physics
First sentence: This book has been written from the practical point of view of the engineer, and so you'll see few rigorous proofs on any of the pages that follow.