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Download PDF by Eli Maor: "e:" The Story of a Number: The Story of a Number (Princeton

By Eli Maor

ISBN-10: 0691033900

ISBN-13: 9780691033907

ISBN-10: 0691058547

ISBN-13: 9780691058542

The curiosity earned on a checking account, the association of seeds in a sunflower, and the form of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all in detail attached with the mysterious quantity e. during this casual and interesting background, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the stylish arithmetic that lie at the back of the quantity. Designed for a reader with just a modest mathematical historical past, this biography brings out the critical significance of e to arithmetic and illuminates a golden period within the age of science.

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