Download or read book Demystifying the Gregorian Calender A Look Into Its History and the Math Behind It written by Walter a. Calhoon and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, humankind has attempted to track time and keep records of its relentless progression. The calendar the world uses today is the Gregorian calendar. Packed with information about the origins of this calendar, its precursors and competitors, as well as its mathematical treatment and accuracy, Demystifying Our Gregorian Calendar gives you the tools, based on sound algorithms, to make a variety of calendar calculations. Walter A. Calhoon earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bradley University, and his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona. He then worked in the aerospace industry for 40 years, developing cutting-edge technology for the Department of Defense and NASA. Walter resides in southern California with his wife of 46 years, and has three children.
Download or read book The Mathematics of the Gregorian Calendar written by David Braverman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of this book is based on codes assigned to each month of the year, to each year and to each century. Since Pope Gregory XIII replaced the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar on February 24, 1582, (and I don't know if he named after himself), the calendar has followed a cycle that makes it predictable. That's where you and I come in. The mathematics is based on an easily learned system called Modulo 7. The problems involve dates and are based an equation with involving 4 quantities. One of them will be unknown. In Task A, that will be the day of the week. If a carnival had a wheel with a spinner that had the 7 days of the week on them, wherever the spinner stops MUST be a day of the week. That is essentially modulo 7. There are no fractions. There are just seven numbers. Readers should know multiples of 7 to avoid having to look at the table.
Download or read book Our Calendar written by George Nichols Packer and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Last Recreations written by Martin Gardner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all of Martin Gardners writings, none gained him a wider audience or was more central to his reputation than his Mathematical Recreations column in Scientific American - which virtually defined the genre of popular mathematics writing for a generation. Flatland, Hydras and Eggs: Mathematical Mystifications is the final collection of these columns, covering the period roughly from 1979 to Gardners retirement in 1986. As always in his published collections, Gardner includes letters commenting on the ideas presented in his articles. These columns show him at the top of his form and should not be missed by anyone with an interest in mathematics.
Download or read book Imperial China 900 1800 written by Frederick W. Mote and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of China for the 900-year span of the late imperial period, Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. Generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization.
Download or read book The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.
Download or read book Encompassing Others written by Edward LiPuma and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of how the advance of capitalism, colonialism, and Christianity has engaged a Melanasian society
Download or read book Rust in Action written by Tim McNamara and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This well-written book will help you make the most of what Rust has to offer." - Ramnivas Laddad, author of AspectJ in Action Rust in Action is a hands-on guide to systems programming with Rust. Written for inquisitive programmers, it presents real-world use cases that go far beyond syntax and structure. Summary Rust in Action introduces the Rust programming language by exploring numerous systems programming concepts and techniques. You'll be learning Rust by delving into how computers work under the hood. You'll find yourself playing with persistent storage, memory, networking and even tinkering with CPU instructions. The book takes you through using Rust to extend other applications and teaches you tricks to write blindingly fast code. You'll also discover parallel and concurrent programming. Filled to the brim with real-life use cases and scenarios, you'll go beyond the Rust syntax and see what Rust has to offer in real-world use cases. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Rust is the perfect language for systems programming. It delivers the low-level power of C along with rock-solid safety features that let you code fearlessly. Ideal for applications requiring concurrency, Rust programs are compact, readable, and blazingly fast. Best of all, Rust’s famously smart compiler helps you avoid even subtle coding errors. About the book Rust in Action is a hands-on guide to systems programming with Rust. Written for inquisitive programmers, it presents real-world use cases that go far beyond syntax and structure. You’ll explore Rust implementations for file manipulation, networking, and kernel-level programming and discover awesome techniques for parallelism and concurrency. Along the way, you’ll master Rust’s unique borrow checker model for memory management without a garbage collector. What's inside Elementary to advanced Rust programming Practical examples from systems programming Command-line, graphical and networked applications About the reader For intermediate programmers. No previous experience with Rust required. About the author Tim McNamara uses Rust to build data processing pipelines and generative art. He is an expert in natural language processing and data engineering. Table of Contents 1 Introducing Rust PART 1 RUST LANGUAGE DISTINCTIVES 2 Language foundations 3 Compound data types 4 Lifetimes, ownership, and borrowing PART 2 DEMYSTIFYING SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING 5 Data in depth 6 Memory 7 Files and storage 8 Networking 9 Time and timekeeping 10 Processes, threads, and containers 11 Kernel 12 Signals, interrupts, and exceptions
Download or read book The Tel Quel Reader written by Patrick Ffrench and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the French literary review, intellectual grouping, and publishing team Tel Quel had a profound impact on literary and cultural debate in the 1960s and '70s. THE TEL QUEL READER presents, for the first time in English, many of the key essays written by the Tel Quel group. The collection filled a much-needed gap in the literature available on the postculturalist movement.
Download or read book The Catechism Explained written by Fr. Francis Spirago and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-08-23 with total page 1115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive guide, Father Francis Spirago provides a detailed and thorough explanation of the Catholic religion, covering a wide range of topics from the fundamental beliefs to the practical aspects of living a Catholic life. The Catechism Explained serves as an invaluable resource for those seeking to deepen their understanding of the Catholic faith, offering clear and concise explanations that are accessible to readers of all backgrounds. Whether you are a lifelong Catholic or simply curious about the religion, this book will provide you with the knowledge and insights needed to navigate the rich and complex world of Catholicism.
Download or read book Science Teaching written by Michael R. Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Teaching argues that science teaching and science teacher education can be improved if teachers know something of the history and philosophy of science and if these topics are included in the science curriculum. The history and philosophy of science have important roles in many of the theoretical issues that science educators need to address: what constitutes an appropriate science curriculum for all students; how science should be taught in traditional cultures; how scientific literacy can be promoted; and the conflict which can occur between science curriculum and deep-seated religious or cultural values and knowledge. Outlining the history of liberal approaches to the teaching of science, Michael Matthews elaborates contemporary curriculum developments that explicitly address questions about the nature and the history of science. He provides examples of classroom teaching and develops useful arguments on constructivism, multicultural science education and teacher education.
Download or read book A Guide to Curriculum Planning in Global Studies written by H. Michael Hartoonian and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This state developed framework offers teachers suggestions for viewing standard curriculum from a global perspective so students can understand that "everything is interrelated." Sample teaching units with topics, key ideas, and activities are provided for grades K-l2.
Download or read book NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card for the Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Soldier s Way written by Colin Powell and published by Hutchinson. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Triumph of Christianity written by Rodney Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Starktraces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal andcontroversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world’slargest religion. In The Triumph of Christianity, the author of God’sBattalions and The Rise of Christianity gathers and refines decadesof powerful research and discovery into one concentrated, concise, and highlyreadable volume that explores Christianity’s most crucial episodes. The uniqueformat of Triumph of Christianity allows Stark to avoid densechronologies and difficult back stories, bringing readers right to the heart ofChristian history’s most vital controversies and enduring lessons.
Download or read book Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom written by Lori Tompkins and published by 360lotus Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the author's sometimes stranger-than-fiction adventure of recovering long-buried geometric and zodiacal keys which unlock and reveal the true context and sense of the Rig Veda, the lore of Vishnu's avatars, St. John's Revelation and many other ancient mysteries or mythologies. The recovery of these keys dismantles thousands of years of accumulated distortions, superstitions and religious dogmas that have arisen from world-wide ignorance of the occulted meaning and context of the Rig Veda. It simultaneously facilitates passage into our higher (or supramental) ranges of consciousness, wherein all of life is known as a divine singularity or Oneness unfolding itself in the unified field of Time and Space. The revelations herein descended in 2016 as a continuation of Sri Aurobindo's yogic mission to uplift the "Secret of the Veda" along with the true origin and goal of Yoga and the Sanatana Dharma (Eternal Truth) of the Ancient Seers. This book is aimed towards readers interested in the evolution of consciousness, as well as sacred geometry, astrology, integral gnosis, symbology, the true origins of yoga, and the eternal truths (Sanatana Dharma) of India's Vedic Rishis or Seers in our day and Age of Aquarius. It may be of special interest to students of the Supramental and Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo the Mother and Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet (Thea), but one does not have to be familiar with these maha yogis to enjoy, understand, and benefit from the descent of Gnosis that is contained herein. Readers who enjoy Dan Brown books (especially "The Lost Symbol") should appreciate this entirely non-fictional account of the recovery of long-lost symbols and treasures of the Vedic Rishis, which help to solve or demystify many of our world's greatest ancient mysteries, including the true significance of the release of the Seven Rivers in the Rig Veda and the parallel account of the release of the Seven Vials or Bowls of St. John's Revelation. At the least it exposes math (or geometry) as the core of our ancient mythology. In addition to discussing the Kali Yugas and Indian mythology in depth, other world mythologies touched upon include: legends of Thor the Thunder God, Pegasus, the Divine Physician, Dionysus (Bacchus), the Fountain of Youth, water nymphs, Medusa, King Arthur, Excalibur, the Holy Grail, the Water Bearer of Aquarius, the Aztec Sun Stone, the Philosopher's Stone, the Rock of Ages and accounts of Biblical heroes walking on water or holding waters (seas) apart, or extracting water from a rock to quench the masses, as well as the idea of the Virgins of Heaven who await God's faithful martyrs. The single Vedic origin and context of all these mythologies becomes fully apparent in this book. It also becomes apparent that the name and mythology of Niagara Falls is firmly connected to Vedic lore.
Download or read book Differential Geometry written by Loring W. Tu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a graduate-level introduction to differential geometry for mathematics and physics students. The exposition follows the historical development of the concepts of connection and curvature with the goal of explaining the Chern–Weil theory of characteristic classes on a principal bundle. Along the way we encounter some of the high points in the history of differential geometry, for example, Gauss' Theorema Egregium and the Gauss–Bonnet theorem. Exercises throughout the book test the reader’s understanding of the material and sometimes illustrate extensions of the theory. Initially, the prerequisites for the reader include a passing familiarity with manifolds. After the first chapter, it becomes necessary to understand and manipulate differential forms. A knowledge of de Rham cohomology is required for the last third of the text. Prerequisite material is contained in author's text An Introduction to Manifolds, and can be learned in one semester. For the benefit of the reader and to establish common notations, Appendix A recalls the basics of manifold theory. Additionally, in an attempt to make the exposition more self-contained, sections on algebraic constructions such as the tensor product and the exterior power are included. Differential geometry, as its name implies, is the study of geometry using differential calculus. It dates back to Newton and Leibniz in the seventeenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century, with the work of Gauss on surfaces and Riemann on the curvature tensor, that differential geometry flourished and its modern foundation was laid. Over the past one hundred years, differential geometry has proven indispensable to an understanding of the physical world, in Einstein's general theory of relativity, in the theory of gravitation, in gauge theory, and now in string theory. Differential geometry is also useful in topology, several complex variables, algebraic geometry, complex manifolds, and dynamical systems, among other fields. The field has even found applications to group theory as in Gromov's work and to probability theory as in Diaconis's work. It is not too far-fetched to argue that differential geometry should be in every mathematician's arsenal.
