When Least Is Best by Paul J Nahin

When Least Is Best by Paul J Nahin

What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? By combining the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples, the author answers these questions.

This book was terrific fun to read! I thought I would skim the chapters to write my review, but I was hooked by the preface, and read through the first 100 pages in one sitting.. [Nahin shows] obvious delight and enjoyment--he is having fun and it is contagious. -- Bonnie Shulman, MAA Online When Least is Best is clearly the result of immense effort... [Nahin] just seems to get better and better... The book is really a popular book of mathematics that touches on a broad range of problems associated with optimization. -- Dennis S. Bernstein, IEEE Control Systems Magazine [When Least is Best is] a wonderful sourcebook from projects and is just plain fun to read. -- Choice This book is highly recommended. -- Clark Kimberling, Mathematical Intelligener A valuable and stimulating introduction to problems that have fascinated mathematicians and physicists for millennia. -- D.R. Wilkins, Contemporary Physics Nahin delivers maximal mathematical enjoyment with minimal perplexity and boredom... [He lets] general readers in on the thrill of riding high-school geometry and algebra to breakthrough insights... A refreshingly lucid and humanizing approach to mathematics. -- Booklist Anyone with a modest command of calculus, a curiosity about how mathematics developed, and a pad of paper for calculations will enjoy Nahin's lively book. His enthusiasm is infectious, his writing style is active and fluid, and his examples always have a point... [H]e loves to tell stories, so even the familiar is enjoyably refreshed. -- Donald R. Sherbert, SIAM Review

Paul J. Nahin is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling "An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of Minus One" and "Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers" (both Princeton).

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ISBN 13	9780691070780
ISBN 10	0691070784
Titel	When Least Is Best
Autor	Paul Nahin
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-12-14
Seitenanzahl	392
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