A History of Mathematics- From Mesopotamia to Modernity

246 A History ofMathematics could be saved, how many expensive workers replaced^8 has been much faster than any of the pioneers ...

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AChaoticEnd? 247 was found to be an easily teachable and attractive subject on university courses. This could not have been the ...

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248 A History ofMathematics the screen. The most popular of all was thequadratic map(justax^2 +bx+c), in two forms: real (Feigen ...

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AChaoticEnd? 249 Statistics, in the form of hypothesis testing developed in the early twentieth century, gave a useful way of de ...

A History of Mathematics From Mesopotamia to Modernity Luke Hodgkin 1 ...

250 A History ofMathematics Fig. 5The ‘Smale horseshoe map’ is often quoted as an example of chaotic behaviour. The mapftakes th ...

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AChaoticEnd? 251 Fig. 6This object (also called a ‘string worldsheet’) is (a) a surface, (b) the story of two strings which (rea ...

Preface This book has its origin in notes which I compiled for a course on the history of mathematics at King’s College London, ...

252 A History ofMathematics All this was familiar to me from my research in high-energy physics, but until that moment I had onl ...

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AChaoticEnd? 253 ++ Fig. 7The ‘classical’ model of the helium atom: two electrons orbiting a nucleus. The quantum model, ...

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254 A History ofMathematics for many mathematicians there is a strong temptation to see Fritiof Capra’s intoxicated description ...

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AChaoticEnd? 255 considered either a hopeless pursuit or a backwater was revived by Ken Ribet’s work in linking it to a central ...

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