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"This is a very useful book...The emphasis is on the mathematical origin of the constants and their interrelationships. The aim is always to be clear and complete, to motivate why a particular constant or idea is important, and to indicate exactly where in the literature one should look for rigorous proofs and further elaboration. This book should be in each mathematical library."
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The Mathematical Gazette
"I think all mathematicians should own this book...there are sections where the author conveys admirably his excitement over some unexpected and beautiful sequence of ideas. I pay the author the earnest compliment of stating that nearly every page in the book is an adventure."
The Mathematical Intelligencer
"Very accessible...The author's clear and engaging style makes the book a pleasure to read."
MAA Reviews
"This is a very useful book...The emphasis is on the mathematical origin of the constants and their interrelationships. The aim is always to be clear and complete, to motivate why a particular constant or idea is important, and to indicate exactly where in the literature one should look for rigorous proofs and further elaboration. This book should be in each mathematical library."
Monatshefte für Mathematik
"I consider this book to be an essential component of all mathematical libraries. I have placed it on my 'within the grasp' shelf and have strongly recommended to the college library that it be added to the reference collection."
Charles Ashbacher, amazon.com
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Steven Finch provides 136 essays, each devoted to a mathematical constant or a class of constants, from the well known to the highly exotic. This book is helpful both to readers seeking information about a specific constant, and to readers who desire a panoramic view of all constants coming from a particular field, for example, combinatorial enumeration or geometric optimization. Unsolved problems appear virtually everywhere as well. This work represents an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place.
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The diagonal of a unit square has length 2 = 1.4142135623....A theory, proposed by the Pythagorean school of philosophy, maintained that all geometric magnitudes could be expressed by rational numbers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hard square entropy, salesman constants, extreme value constants, coin tossing constants, random walk constants, cyclic inequality, reciprocal sum constants, small prime solutions, parking constants, subsequence constants, polygonal drawing, quadratic recurrence, worm constants, rectilinear crossing number, random binary trees, complex continued fractions, zeta function values, recurrence constants, enumeration constants, digital search trees, conjectured value, convex polyominoes, random sequential adsorption, natural logarithmic base, stopping constants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Amer Math, London Math, Academic Press, Cambridge Univ, Acta Arith, On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Discrete Math, Oxford Univ, Acta Math, Cambridge Philos, Collected Papers, Math Soc, Annals of Math, Royal Soc, Fibonacci Quart, Random Structures Algorithms, Duke Math, Constants Let, Monte Carlo, Theory Ser, Princeton Univ, Pure Appl, World Scientific, Math Monthly, Collected Works New!
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The diagonal of a unit square has length 2 = 1.4142135623....A theory, proposed by the Pythagorean school of philosophy, maintained that all geometric magnitudes could be expressed by rational numbers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hard square entropy, salesman constants, extreme value constants, coin tossing constants, random walk constants, cyclic inequality, reciprocal sum constants, small prime solutions, parking constants, subsequence constants, polygonal drawing, quadratic recurrence, worm constants, rectilinear crossing number, random binary trees, complex continued fractions, zeta function values, recurrence constants, enumeration constants, digital search trees, conjectured value, convex polyominoes, random sequential adsorption, natural logarithmic base, stopping constants Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Amer Math, London Math, Academic Press, Cambridge Univ, Acta Arith, On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Discrete Math, Oxford Univ, Acta Math, Cambridge Philos, Collected Papers, Math Soc, Annals of Math, Royal Soc, Fibonacci Quart, Random Structures Algorithms, Duke Math, Constants Let, Monte Carlo, Theory Ser, Princeton Univ, Pure Appl, World Scientific, Math Monthly, Collected Works New!
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- The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences by N. J.A. Sloane on 43 pages
- Introduction to Analytic and Probabilistic Number Theory (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics) by G. Tenenbaum on 5 pages
- Mathematics for the Analysis of Algorithms (Progress in Computer Science) by D.H. Greene on page 35, page 97, and page 447
- Exactly Solved Models in Statistical Mechanics by R.J. Baxter on page 402, page 416, and page 419
- Handbook of Convex Geometry, Volume Volume A (v. 1) by Author Unknown on page 224, page 483, and page 501
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- Mathematics by Experiment: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century by Jonathan M. Borwein on page 235, and Back Matter
- Automated Deduction in Geometry: 5th International Workshop, ADG 2004, Gainesville, FL, USA, September 16-18, 2004, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) by Hoon Hong on page 69
- Classical and Quantum Orthogonal Polynomials in One Variable (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications) by Mourad E. H. Ismail in Front Matter
- Topics in Algebraic Graph Theory (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications) (v. 1) by Lowell W. Beineke in Front Matter
- Pi: A Source Book by Lennart Berggren in Back Matter
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