THE MATHEMATICS OF MEASUREMENT / Edition 1

by ROCHE

Overview

The Mathematics of Measurement is a historical survey of the introduction of mathematics to physics and of the branches of mathematics that were developed specifically for handling measurements, including dimensional analysis, error analysis, and the calculus of quantities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387915814
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/21/1998
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction

1 The Emergence of the Practical Conception of Number

2 Early Scientific Metrology and Quantitative Laws

3 Early Applications of Geometry and Proportion

4 The Progress of Quantification

5 Arithmetical Algebra and Symbolic Geometry

6 Algebra in Physics in the Seventeenth Century

7 Mathematics in Eighteenth-Century Exact Science

8 The Metric Reform and the Units of Physics

9 Absolute Quantification in Electricity and Magnetism

10 Dimensional Analysis and the Quantity Calculus

11 Dimensional Exploration

12 Interpreting the Algebra of Physics

App: Units in the Systeme International

Notes

Bibliography

Index