Voltaire's riddle: micromégas and the measure of all things
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Autor: Simoson, Andrew J
Jahr: 2010
Contents
Introduction......................................................xi
Vignette I: A Dinner Invitation.......................................1
I The Annotated Micromegas.......................................7
Vignette II: Here be Giants!........................................41
II The Micro and the Mega........................................51
Vignette III: The Bastille...........................................71
III Fragments from Flatland......................................75
Vignette IV: A want-to-be mathematician ............................95
IV Newton s Polar Ellipse........................................101
Vignette V: A Bourgeois Poet in the Temple of Taste..................117
V A Mandarin Orange or a Lemon?..............................121
Vignette VI: The Zodiac...........................................139
VI Hipparchus s Twist...........................................145
Vignette VIT. Love Triangles.......................................159
VII Dürer s Hypocycloid.........................................163
Vignette VIII: Maupertuis s Hole...................................189
VIII Newton s Other Ellipse.....................................197
Vignette IX: The Man in the Moon.................................217
IX Maupertuis s Pursuit Problem................................221
Vignette X: Voltaire and the Almighty...............................237
X Solomon s n..................................................241
Vignette XI: Laputa and Gargantua................................257
XI Moon Pie....................................................263
Vignette XII: A Last Curtain Call..................................279
XII Riddle Resolution!...........................................281
VII
viii Voltaire s Riddle
Appendix........................................................303
Cast of Characters...............................................321
Comments on Selected Exercises..................................333
References.......................................................359
Index............................................................367
About the Author................................................377
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