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- catalog abstract ""Written in a conversational tone and requiring only an early undergraduate level of mathematical knowledge, When Least Is Best is full of fascinating examples and ready-to-try-at-home experiments. This is the first book on optimization written for a wide audience, and math enthusiasts of all backgrounds will delight in its lively topics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13089711.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Written in a conversational tone and requiring only an early undergraduate level of mathematical knowledge, When Least Is Best is full of fascinating examples and ready-to-try-at-home experiments. This is the first book on optimization written for a wide audience, and math enthusiasts of all backgrounds will delight in its lively topics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Minimums, maximums, derivatives, and computers -- The first extremal problems -- Medieval maximization and some modern twists -- The forgotten war of Descartes and Fermat -- Calculus steps forward, center stage -- Beyond calculus -- The modern age begins.".
- catalog description "Notes bibliogr. Index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 370 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691070784 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog subject "511/.66 22".
- catalog subject "Mathematics History.".
- catalog subject "Maxima and minima.".
- catalog subject "QA306 .N34 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Minimums, maximums, derivatives, and computers -- The first extremal problems -- Medieval maximization and some modern twists -- The forgotten war of Descartes and Fermat -- Calculus steps forward, center stage -- Beyond calculus -- The modern age begins.".
- catalog title "When least is best : how mathematicians discovered many clever ways to make things as small (or as large) as possible / Paul J. Nahin.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".