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Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant Hardcover - 2003

by Julian Havil; Foreword by Freeman Dyson


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In an age when a 'computer' is taken to mean a machine rather than a person and calculations of fantastic complexity are routine and executed at lightning speed, constricting difficulties with ordinary arithmetic seem (and are) extremely remote.

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  • Title Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant
  • Author Julian Havil; Foreword by Freeman Dyson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
  • Date March 17, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780691099835 / 0691099839
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6 x 0.97 in (23.50 x 15.24 x 2.46 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Euler, Leonhard, Mathematical constants
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002192453
  • Dewey Decimal Code 513

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Julian Havil is a retired former master at Winchester College, England, where he taught mathematics for thirty-three years. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Oxford University. Freeman Dyson is professor emeritus of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of several books, including Disturbing the Universe and Origins of Life.
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