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This collection of 39 short stories gives the reader a unique opportunity to take a look at the scientific philosophy of Vladimir Arnold. Topics of the stories included range from astronomy, to mirages, to motion of glaciers, to geometry of mirrors and beyond. In each case Arnold's explanation is both deep and simple, which makes the book interesting and accessible to an extremely broad readership.

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Publisher
American Mathematical Society
ISBN-10
1470417014
ISBN-13
9781470417017
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202484184

Product Key Features

Author
V. I. Arnold
Publication Name
Mathematical Understanding of Nature : Essays on Amazing Physical Phenomena and Their Understanding by Mathematicians
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Mechanics / Fluids, Essays
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Science, Mathematics
Number of Pages
167 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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LCCN
2014-018911
Lc Classification Number
Qa39.A7413 2014
Reviews
"This is a wonderful book for browsing, for anyone drawn to physical applications of mathematics or to Arnold himself and the breadth of his interests." -- MAA "The remarks provide a glimpse into the background of the history and the culture of science and humanity. This book will entertain and make the reader think. I recommend this fascinating book to any curious person. -- Lszl Csizmadia, ACTA Sci. Math, The remarks provide a glimpse into the background of the history and the culture of science and humanity. This book will entertain and make the reader think. I recommend this fascinating book to any curious person." - László Csizmadia, ACTA Sci Math "Examples teach no less than rules, and errors, more than correct but abstruse proofs. Looking at the pictures in this book, the reader will understand more than learning by rote dozens of axioms (even together with their consequences about what sea the Volga River falls into and what horses eat). Most essays in the book are quite short, and their level of difficulty varies significantly -- some require only knowledge of a high school mathematics and some may be viewed as a serious challenge even for an experienced mathematician. As most texts written by Arnold, the book under review is a quite demanding but very stimulating and inspiring reading featuring original author's illustrations." - Zentralblatt Math "This is a wonderful book for browsing, for anyone drawn to physical applications of mathematics or to Arnold himself and the breadth of his interests." - MAA Reviews
Table of Content
The eccentricity of the Keplerian orbit of Mars Rescuing the empennage Return along a sinusoid The Dirichlet integral and the Laplace operator Snell's law of refraction Water depth and Cartesian science A drop of water refracting light Maximal deviation angle of a beam The rainbow Mirages Tide, Gibbs phenomenon, and tomography Rotation of a liquid What force drives a bicycle forward? Hooke and Keplerian ellipses and their conformal transformations The stability of the inverted pendulum and Kapitsa's sewing machine Space flight of a photo camera cap The angular velocity of a clock hand and Feynman's "self-propagating pseudoeducation" Planetary rings Symmetry (and Curie's principle) Courant's erroneous theorems Ill-posed problems of mechanics Rational fractions of flows Journey to the center of the earth Mean frequency of explosions (according to Ya. B. Zel'dovich) and de Sitter's world The Bernoulli fountains of the Nikologorsky bridge Shape formation in a three-liter glass jar Lidov's moon landing problem The advance and retreat of glaciers The ergodic theory of geometric progressions The Malthusian partitioning of the world Percolation and the hydrodynamics of the universe Buffon's problem and integral geometry Average projected area The mathematical notion of potential Inversion in cylindrical mirrors in the subway Adiabatic invariants Universality of Hack's exponent for river lengths Resonances in the Shukhov tower, in the Sobolev equation, and in the tanks of spin-stabilized rockets The theory of rigid body rotation and hydrodynamics
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
510
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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