Manfred Schroeder (1926–2009)
Auteur de Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise
A propos de l'auteur
Manfred Schroeder joined the research department of AT&T's Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey and from 1958 to 1969 he directed research on speech compression, synthesis, and recognition. Since 1969 he has also served as a Professor of Physics at Gottingen.
Crédit image: Manfred Schroeder, 1993 at Göttingen
Œuvres de Manfred Schroeder
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Schroeder, Manfred Robert
- Date de naissance
- 1926-07-12
- Date de décès
- 2009-12-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Germany
- Lieu de naissance
- Ahlen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Lieu du décès
- Göttingen, Germany
- Études
- University of Göttingen (PhD, physics, 1954)
- Professions
- physicist
acoustical engineer - Organisations
- Bell Telephone Laboratories (head of the Acoustics Research Department,)
- Prix et distinctions
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
Rayleigh Medal (1984)
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I have fallen in and out of love with this book. Great if you want a very brief introduction to number theory. Not so awesome if you want to understand it. Manfred Schroeder does a lot of handwaving and "I'll leave the proof to the reader"s, which is terrifying for somebody trying to learn basic concepts. Also, he uses a lot of different conventions and naming schemes than others, so it makes it difficult to find other information about certain topics elsewhere. That said, I haven't found other number theory books that cover basic concepts without going into incredible mathematical detail.… (plus d'informations)
Schroeder is great at taking number theory and making it accessible to people who aren't math majors. This book covers a lot of interesting topics related to fractals and self-similarity without delving too deep into rigorous mathematical proofs.
A very accessible book on number theory and its applications. Anyone with a reasonable amount of university/college math will find it very readable. Schroeder never spends too much time on any one idea, which allows the book to move along quickly. There are not too many proofs, rather he uses equation development to illustrate concrete results, concepts, or as fodder for later discussions. I always enjoy returning to this book.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 347
- Popularité
- #68,853
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 25
- Langues
- 2
What is frustrating is that inevitably you will find yoir favourites and be annoyed that the author only dedicated 3 pages to the problem you really care about.
A little too diverse and fragmented... but a fun math book.