E: The Story of a Number (Record no. 109015)
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| fixed length control field | 01802nam a2200169 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 171213b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691168487 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 512.73 |
| Item number | MAO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Maor, Eli |
| 9 (RLIN) | 23182 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | E: The Story of a Number |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2015 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Jersey |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 227p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | <br/><br/> 1. John Napier, 1614<br/> 2. Recognition<br/> 3. Financial Matters<br/> 4. To the Limit, If It Exists<br/> 5. Forefathers of the Calculus<br/> 6. Prelude to Breakthrough<br/> 7. Squaring the Hyperbola<br/> 8. The Birth of a New Science<br/> 9. The Great Controversy<br/> 10. e[superscript x]: The Function That Equals its Own Derivative<br/> 11. e[superscript theta]: Spira Mirabilis<br/> 12. (e[superscript x] + e[superscript -x])/2: The Hanging Chain<br/> 13. e[superscript ix]: "The Most Famous of All Formulas"<br/> 14. e[superscript x + iy]: The Imaginary Becomes Real<br/> 15. But What Kind of Number Is It?<br/> App. 1. Some Additional Remarks on Napier's Logarithms<br/> App. 2. The Existence of lim (1 + 1/n)[superscript n] as n [approaches] [infinity]<br/> App. 3. A Heuristic Derivation of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus<br/> App. 4. The Inverse Relation between lim (b[superscript h] - 1)/h = 1 and lim (1 + h)[superscript 1/h] = b as h [approaches] 0<br/> App. 5. An Alternative Definition of the Logarithmic Function<br/> App. 6. Two Properties of the Logarithmic Spiral<br/> App. 7. Interpretation of the Parameter [phi] in the Hyperbolic Functions<br/> App. 8. e to One Hundred Decimal Places. |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Logarithms - History |
| 9 (RLIN) | 24942 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mathematics |
| 9 (RLIN) | 24943 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type | Book |
| Call number prefix | 512.73 |
| Call number suffix | MAO |
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