Mathematical Constants II

The continuation of an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.

List of contents

1. Number theory and combinatorics; 2. Inequalities and approximation; 3. Real and complex analysis; 4. Probability and stochastic processes; 5. Geometry and topology; Index.

About the author

Steven R. Finch is Research Computing Specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. He is honoured to have received a Book Fellowship from the Clay Mathematics Institute and a Ford award for expository excellence. After the publication of the first volume of Mathematical Constants (Cambridge, 2003), he worked for three years as a statistical programmer at the Boston University School of Public Health, and then taught for ten years as a preceptor at the Harvard University Department of Statistics.

Summary

The author continues his outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place. Using this book, students and professionals will discover hidden links between apparently disconnected fields of inquiry. Unsolved problems - the lifeblood of mathematics - appear virtually everywhere as well.

Product details

• Authors: Steven R. Finch, Steven R. (Massachusetts Institute of Techn Finch, Steven R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Finch, FINCH STEVEN, Finch Steven R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108470599
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47059-9
• No. of pages: 782
• Series: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications; Encyclopedia of Mathematics an; Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications; Encyclopedia of Mathematics an
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; MATHEMATICS / General, Number Theory, Combinatorics & graph theory, Maths for scientists, Mathematical foundations, Combinatorics and graph theory