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Calculating Curves|Ron Doerfler

Calculating Curves : The Mathematics, History, and Aesthetic Appeal of T. H. Gronwall's Nomographic Work

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Calculating Curves is a book about a beautiful but forgotten paper of Thomas Hakon Gronwall. Gronwall was a Swedish mathematician and an American immigrant who published over 80 papers in pure and applied mathematics. He was a practicing civil engineer in Europe and the United States as well as a professor at Princeton University. The paper considered in the book was the first work to produce a necessary and sufficient condition for the representability problem of a graphical problem-solving construct called an alignment nomogram. The book includes a biography of Gronwall, a translation of the paper with an extensive commentary and a complete bibliography of Gronwall's work.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780983700432
  • ISBN-10: 0983700435
  • Publisher: Docent Press
  • Publish Date: April 2012
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.37 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.53 pounds
  • Page Count: 174

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