Approximating Perfection.Approximating Perfection Leonid P. Lebedev & Michael J. Cloud Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities Press 41 William Street William Street may refer to:
www.pupress.princeton.edu 0691117268 $29.95 1-800-777-4726 College-level readers who enjoy thinking about how Nature can be described using math will find Leonid Lebedev and Michael Cloud's Approximating Perfection: A Mathematician's Journey Into The World Of Mechanics, a fine survey of applied mechanics the principles of abstract mechanics applied to human art; also, the practical application of the laws of matter and motion to the construction of machines and structures of all kinds. See also: Mechanics and its lighter side. Formal engineering courses often bypass such topics as how models remain imperfect imperfect: see tense. and under-developed: Approximating Perfection surveys these and other issues, emphasizing underlying logic and parallels between mechanics and math. |
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