Cover: Measurement, from Harvard University PressCover: Measurement in PAPERBACK

Measurement

Add to Cart

Product Details

PAPERBACK

$22.00 • £17.95 • €20.00

ISBN 9780674284388

Publication Date: 05/12/2014

* Academic Trade

416 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

416 line illustrations

Belknap Press

World

Related Subjects

  • Reality and Imagination
  • On Problems
  • I. Size and Shape
    • In which we begin our investigation of abstract geometrical figures.
    • Symmetrical tiling and angle measurement.
    • Scaling and proportion.
    • Length, area, and volume.
    • The method of exhaustion and its consequences.
    • Polygons and trigonometry.
    • Conic sections and projective geometry.
    • Mechanical curves.
  • II. Time and Space
    • Containing some thoughts on mathematical motion.
    • Coordinate systems and dimension.
    • Motion as a numerical relationship.
    • Vector representation and mechanical relativity.
    • The measurement of velocity.
    • The differential calculus and its myriad uses.
    • Some final words of encouragement to the reader.
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Recent News

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Jacket: An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns, by Bruno Latour, translated by Catherine Porter, from Harvard University Press

Honoring Latour

In awarding Bruno Latour the 2021 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, the Inamori Foundation said he has “revolutionized the conventional view of science” and “his philosophy re-examines ‘modernity’ based on the dualism of nature and society.” Below is an excerpt from An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. For more than twenty years, scientific and technological controversies have proliferated in number and scope, eventually reaching the climate itself. Since geologists are beginning to use the term “Anthropocene” to designate the era of Earth’s history that follows the Holocene…