Number-Crunching : Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction /
How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or eve...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Feynman Meets Fermat
- 2. Just for Fun: Two Quick Number-Crunching Problems
- 3. Computers and Mathematical Physics
- 4. The Astonishing Problem of the Hanging Masses
- 5. The Three-Body Problem and Computers
- 6. Electrical Circuit Analysis and Computers
- 7. The Leapfrog Problem
- 8. Science Fiction: When Computers Become Like Us
- 9. A Cautionary Epilogue
- Appendix
- Solutions to the Challenge Problems
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also By Paul J. Nahin
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Feynman Meets Fermat
- 2. Just for Fun: Two Quick Number-Crunching Problems
- 3. Computers and Mathematical Physics
- 4. The Astonishing Problem of the Hanging Masses
- 5. The Three-Body Problem and Computers
- 6. Electrical Circuit Analysis and Computers
- 7. The Leapfrog Problem
- 8. Science Fiction: When Computers Become Like Us
- 9. A Cautionary Epilogue
- Appendix
- Solutions to the Challenge Problems
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also By Paul J. Nahin