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Patrick D. Berry (born 1970) is an American puzzle creator and editor who constructs crossword puzzles and variety puzzles. He had 227 crosswords published in The New York Times from 1999 to 2018. His how-to guide for crossword construction was first published as a For Dummies book in 2004.
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, [16] [17] (1970, revised 3rd ed. 2005) The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX Macro package, (1990) A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Calculus, [18] (1995) Spivak, Michael (2010). Physics for mathematicians—Mechanics I. Houston, TX: Publish or Perish. ISBN 978-0-914098 ...
[1] [4] He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1979 and spent a year working as a math teacher at a vocational high school in York, Pennsylvania. [1] [4] In 1980, Shenk began submitting crosswords to Games magazine, after having the previous year entered a crossword contest curated by Will Shortz for Bantam Books.
As described in A Treasury of Deception, by Michael Farquhar (Peguin Books, 2005), between 1861 and 1869 Chasles purchased some of the 27,000 forged letters from Frenchman Denis Vrain-Lucas. Included in this trove were letters from Alexander the Great to Aristotle , from Cleopatra to Julius Caesar , and from Mary Magdalene to a revived Lazarus ...
Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is called a geometer. Until the 19th century, geometry was almost exclusively devoted to Euclidean geometry, [a] which includes the notions of point, line, plane, distance, angle, surface, and curve, as fundamental ...
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These writings represent the earliest known interpretations of the Zhouyi, the Bronze Age divination manual underlying the Book of Changes (易經 Yì jīng). By offering philosophical and moral insights, the Ten Wings transformed the text from a practical guide for divination into a profound treatise on metaphysics, ethics, and cosmology. [1]
Michael Ian Shamos (born April 21, 1947) is an American mathematician, attorney, book author, journal editor, consultant and company director.He is (with Franco P. Preparata) the author of Computational Geometry (Springer-Verlag, 1985), which was for many years the standard textbook in computational geometry, and is known for the Shamos–Hoey sweep line algorithm for line segment intersection ...