| Calculating Curves: The Mathematics, History, and Aesthetic Appeal of T. H. Gronwall's Nomographic Work Contributor(s): Doerfler, Ron (Contribution by), Gluchoff, Alan (Contribution by), Guthery, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 0983700435 ISBN-13: 9780983700432 Publisher: Docent Press OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Graphic Methods - Science | Research & Methodology |
| Dewey: 001.42 |
| LCCN: 2012288043 |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.53 lbs) 174 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |