Mathematics With Love [electronic resource] : The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb / by M. Stopes-Roe.
Mathematics With Love
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780230552227 978-0-230-55222-7
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/3866
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2005.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XII, 366 p. online resource.
Dizi
Macmillan Science, 2947-7395
Özet, vb.
In 1922 Barnes Wallis FRS, who later invented the transatlantic airship and the bouncing bomb immortalized in the movie The Dam Busters, fell in love for the first and last time - aged 35. The object of his affection, Molly Bloxam, was 17 and setting off to study science at University College London. Her father decreed that the two could correspond only if Barnes taught Molly mathematics in his letters. Mathematics with Love presents, for the first time, the result of this curious diktat: a series of witty, tender and totally accessible introductions to calculus, trigonometry and electrostatic induction that remarkably, wooed and won the girl. Deftly narrated by Barnes and Molly's daughter Mary, Mathematics with Love is an evocative tale of a twenties courtship, a surprising insight into the early life of an engineering genius - and a great way to learn a little mathematics.
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Great Britain __ History.
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History of Britain and Ireland.
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Life Sciences.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Mathematics and Computing.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Science.
Mathematics.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Technology and Engineering.
Life Sciences.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Physical Sciences.
Mathematics and Computing.