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A truely amazing man
This book sheds much desreved light on a remarkable man.His life and his invention are truely amazing. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Mathematics, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 573 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Explores the functions of math in daily life, as well as its role as a tool for measurement, data analysis, and technological development. This illustrated set also explains basic concepts of math and geometry, and provides information on historical milestones, notable mathematicians, and today's career choices. ... Read more

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Herman Hollerith was a German-American statistician whodeveloped a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards inorder to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of piecesof data. He was the founder of the company that became IBM. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 768 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Designed to answer such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumers' behavior? This title presents era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1490 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 839 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Reviews the history of the discipline and its concepts, and profiles contributors in the field. The impact of computers on society is explored, with examples in literature and film to illustrate and support trends. ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Carl Friedrich Gauß, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Herman Hollerith, Ernst Abbe, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome, Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt, Stefano Franscini, Adolphe Quételet, Hermann Paasche, Gustav von Rümelin, Irénée-Jules Bienaymé, Adolph Wagner, Viktor Böhmert, George Udny Yule, Wilhelm Lexis, Friedrich Robert Helmert, Ernst Engel, Ladislaus von Bortkewitsch, Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden, Pafnuti Lwowitsch Tschebyschow, Theodor Inama von Sternegg, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Dieterici, August Meitzen, Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch, Johann Gottfried Hoffmann, Martin von Schwartner, Maurice Block, Franz Xaver von Neumann-Spallart, William Playfair, Georg von Viebahn, Adolf Ficker, Karl Becker, Emil Blenck, Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert, Richard Böckh, Siegfried Becher, Hans von Scheel, Robert Giffen, Hermann Ignaz Bidermann, John Sinclair, Georg Evert, Ludwik Krzywicki, Salomon Neumann, Richard van der Borght, Karl von Czoernig-Czernhausen, Leopold Wilhelmi, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Luigi Bodio, Serafim Keropowitsch Patkanow, William Guy, Jacques Bertillon,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß (latinisiert Carolus Fridericus Gauss; * 30. April 1777 in Braunschweig; † 23. Februar 1855 in Göttingen) war ein deutscher Mathematiker, Astronom, Geodät und Physiker mit einem breit gefächerten Feld an Interessen. Seine überragenden wissenschaftlichen Leistungen waren schon seinen Zeitgenossen bewusst. Bereits 1856 ließ der König von Hannover Gedenkmünzen mit dem Bild von Gauß und der Inschrift Mathematicorum Principi (lateinisch: „dem Fürsten der Mathematiker") prägen. Da Gauß nur einen Bruchteil seiner Entd...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=906 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 600 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the late 1870s until the late 1980s.Usage of these terms is not uniform across the English-speaking world (see below). In more modern usage, this device is often called a turntable, record player, or record changer. When used in conjunction with a mixer as part of a DJ set up, they are often called decks. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Macmillan Reference USA Science Library: Computer Sciences, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1260 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Reviews the history of the discipline and its concepts, and profiles contributors in the field. The impact of computers on society is explored, with examples in literature and film to illustrate and support trends. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 2544 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more