Empire of the Sum The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston
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Empire of the Sum The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston | 12.83 MB
English | 384 Pages
Title: Empire of the Sum
Author: Keith Houston
Year: 2023
Description:
The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life.
Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. The calculator is dead; long live the calculator.
In this witty mathematic and social history, Keith Houston transports readers from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, where a Jewish engineer calculated for his life at Buchenwald, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable...
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The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life.
Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. The calculator is dead; long live the calculator.
In this witty mathematic and social history, Keith Houston transports readers from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, where a Jewish engineer calculated for his life at Buchenwald, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/80f9e5e2fd52e3f335563d170fadd212/Empire_of_the_Sum__The_Rise_and_Reign_of_the_Pocket_Calculator_by_Keith_Houston_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/368e056359d67/Empire_of_the_Sum__The_Rise_and_Reign_of_the_Pocket_Calculator_by_Keith_Houston_.rar
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