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100			_aMaor, Eli _923182
245			_aE: The Story of a Number
260			_bPrinceton University Press _c2015 _aNew Jersey
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500			_a 1. John Napier, 1614 2. Recognition 3. Financial Matters 4. To the Limit, If It Exists 5. Forefathers of the Calculus 6. Prelude to Breakthrough 7. Squaring the Hyperbola 8. The Birth of a New Science 9. The Great Controversy 10. e[superscript x]: The Function That Equals its Own Derivative 11. e[superscript theta]: Spira Mirabilis 12. (e[superscript x] + e[superscript -x])/​2: The Hanging Chain 13. e[superscript ix]: "The Most Famous of All Formulas" 14. e[superscript x + iy]: The Imaginary Becomes Real 15. But What Kind of Number Is It? App. 1. Some Additional Remarks on Napier's Logarithms App. 2. The Existence of lim (1 + 1/​n)[superscript n] as n [approaches] [infinity] App. 3. A Heuristic Derivation of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus 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 App. 5. An Alternative Definition of the Logarithmic Function App. 6. Two Properties of the Logarithmic Spiral App. 7. Interpretation of the Parameter [phi] in the Hyperbolic Functions App. 8. e to One Hundred Decimal Places.
600			_aLogarithms - History _924942
600			_aMathematics _924943
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