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9788173715105
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Universities Press
Subject
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Encyclopaedias & Reference Works
Binding
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Paperback
Pages
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368
Year
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2010
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When Least is Best is an illustrative hsitorical walk through optimisation problems as solved by mathematicians, and scientists. Although many of us associate solving optimisation with calculus. Paul J Nahin shows here that many key problems were posed and solved long before calculus was developed. About Author : Paul J Nahin is Professor of Electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling ann imagineary tales: the story of the square root of minus one and Dueling idiots and other probability puzzlers. Contents : PrefaceMinimums, Maximums, Derivatives, and computersthe first extermal problemsMedieval maximization and some modern twistsThe forgotten war of descartes and fermatCalculus steps forward centre stageBeyond calcuusThe modern age beginsAppendix
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