After forty years in professional sport and business, Michael Friedman sits down to describe the harrowing career path that he -- a self-described "ordinary guy"-- pursued, stumbled on, raced along, departed from, triumphed through and is still...
We began with five quail. It was a little hobby, we called it. Two years later we had 150 of them and sold nearly 300 dozen eggs. We began with a 5'x5' herb garden. Four years later we couldn't eat everything we produced. It would be safe to...
The book offers an extensive study on the convoluted history of the research of algebraic surfaces, focusing for the first time on one of its characterizing curves: the branch curve. Starting with separate beginnings during the 19 th century with...
This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models...
While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass ? for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments ? the discovery of the...
At the age of thirty-eight, Zeno Aristos is trying to find himself. Much to his girlfriend's chagrin, he's quit the New York City police force and can't figure out what he wants to do with his life. A job in security doesn't appeal to him....