By combining the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples, Nahin answers intriguing questions in this engaging and witty volume. He shows how life often works at the extremes--with values becoming as small (or as large) as possible--and how mathematicians over the centuries have struggled to calculate these problems of minima and maxima.
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By combining the mathematical history of extrema with contemporary examples, Nahin answers intriguing questions in this engaging and witty volume. He shows how life often works at the extremes--with values becoming as small (or as large) as possible--and how mathematicians over the centuries have struggled to calculate these problems of minima and maxima.
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