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Number-Crunching: Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction
Number-Crunching Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction
Author: Paul J. Nahin
How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or every photo ever taken? These are just some of the intr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691144252
ISBN-10: 0691144257
Publication Date: 8/21/2011
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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