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First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the "new science" of the seventeenth century. <P><P>The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It studies early modern science and technology, Baroque court culture, and the development of the discipline of architecture. 
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The main idea behind this text may be outlined by showing in which way ergodic theory can be useful for problems arising from number theory.
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 (4.0 / 5.0) This lucid presentation examines how mathematics shaped and was shaped by the course of human events. Authors Resnikoff and Wells explore the growth, development and far-reaching applications of trigonometry, navigation, cartography, logarithms, algebra, and calculus through ancient, medieval, post-Renaissance and modern times. Preface. Index. Bibliography. 203 black-and-white figures. 7 tables. 14 photos.
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 (5.0 / 5.0) "A veritable encyclopedia of the khipu, this volume pulls together new and groundbreaking work by the foremost experts, attacking the problem from a wide variety of perspectives and integrating analysis from historical, archaeological, and ethnographic perspectives." --Thomas A. Abercrombie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University The Inka Empire stretched over much of the length and breadth of the South American Andes, encompassed elaborately planned cities linked by a complex network of roads and messengers, and created astonishing works of architecture and artistry and a compelling mythology--all without the aid of a graphic writing system. Instead, the Inkas' records consisted of devices made of knotted and dyed strings--called khipu--on which they recorded information pertaining to the organization and history of their empire. Despite more than a century of research on these remarkable devices, the khipu remain largely undeciphered. In this benchmark book, thirteen international scholars tackle the most vexed question in khipu studies: how did the Inkas record and transmit narrative records by means of knotted strings? The authors approach the problem from a variety of angles. Several essays mine Spanish colonial sources for details about the kinds of narrative encoded in the khipu. Others look at the uses to which khipu were put before and after the Conquest, as well as their current use in some contemporary Andean communities. Still others analyze the formal characteristics of khipu and seek to explain how they encode various kinds of numerical and narrative data.
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From the medicine we take, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics give shape to everything we do. Yet, for all their ubiquity, most of us really don't know what to make of statistics. Exploring the history, mathematics, philosophy and practical use of statistics, this brand-new Introducing title will be of interest to anyone perplexed by the jungle of numbers in which we all live.
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.
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 (4.5 / 5.0) More than just a biographical account or a historical treatise of R. Buckminster Fuller, is a thought-provoking consideration of the importance of the Fuller legacy to our future and an inspiring synthesis of Fuller's major ideas and inventions. DLC: Fuller, R.Buckminster -1895-1983
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(4.5 / 5.0) This text remains one of the clearest, most authoritative and most accurate works in the field. The standard history treats hundreds of figures and schools instrumental in the development of mathematics—from the Phoenicians to such 19th-century giants as Grassman, Galois, Riemann.<br>
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