Une étude consacrée aux travaux d'Archimède ainsi qu'à ses apports dans la science moderne. L'auteur démontre que certaines notions développées par le scientifique conduisent à de nouvelles approches des problèmes scientifiques et sociaux et peuvent apporter des outils efficaces dans les domaines des mathématiques et de la physique. ©Electre 2025
Archimedes died more than 2 200 years ago. Most people think that, even if he is considered to be one of the greatest geniuses of all time, everything he did, no matter how clever he was, has been long ago incorporated by modern science, and that he belongs to the past.
But this is not true at all, as we will clearly demonstrate. Two main ideas, namely what we call « Archimedes Maps » and what he called himself « the Method », lead to completely new approaches to modern day scientific and social problems, with far more powerful tools than the ones which were later produced by other means.
Archimedes Maps are the key to many of our modern concerns : optimal allocation of resources, monitoring and surveillance. Lost for more than 2 000 years, the « Weighing Method » provides - when correctly understood - extremely efficient tools in various areas of mathematics and physics : probability theory, optics, systems of polynomial equations, nondestructive testing, and many others.
This book borrows very little from modern mathematics, but tries to indicate what they would be if Archimedes had lived longer.
Paru le : 01/08/2012
Thématique : Mathématiques Appliquées
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Bernard Beauzamy
Éditeur(s) :
Société de calcul mathématique
Collection(s) : Real life mathematics
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-9521458-7-9
EAN13 : 9782952145879
Reliure : Cartonné
Pages : 220
Hauteur: 25.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.6 cm
Poids: 0 g
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