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Review of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae

Review of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae
Review of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae
Formulae it has aplenty, but the usefulness of being able to find the surface area of a frustum is questionable. Indeed, if this book were truly intended to be useful it would have included one of the approximate formulae for the perimeter of an ellipse rather than just passing over the question in silence. Were it not for the cartoon wizard and the brief discussion of ’higher dimensions’ (without formulae) this could be a 1920s formula book, not that that is necessarily a bad thing.
0024-6093
30-31
Wright, M.C.M.
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Wright, M.C.M.
b7209187-993d-4f18-8003-9f41aaf88abf

Wright, M.C.M. (2008) Review of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 372, 30-31.

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Formulae it has aplenty, but the usefulness of being able to find the surface area of a frustum is questionable. Indeed, if this book were truly intended to be useful it would have included one of the approximate formulae for the perimeter of an ellipse rather than just passing over the question in silence. Were it not for the cartoon wizard and the brief discussion of ’higher dimensions’ (without formulae) this could be a 1920s formula book, not that that is necessarily a bad thing.

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Published date: 2008

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Local EPrints ID: 57851
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/57851
ISSN: 0024-6093
PURE UUID: 8b8515bd-976a-478a-bf74-8e91eb049133
ORCID for M.C.M. Wright: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9393-4918

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Date deposited: 20 Aug 2008
Last modified: 11 Jan 2023 02:34

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