smith jon 1938 (2 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; 445 pp. : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Calculators. Numerical analysis. Use of pocket electronic calculators. Manuals. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xii, 380 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ; ISBN: 0471799971; 9780471799979 LCCN: 74-20713 ; LC: QA75; Dewey: 519.4; 510/.28; NLM: QA 75 S652s 1975 ; OCLC: 1055575 ; black cloth with red metallic lettering, in pictorial dustjacket ; "Jon Michael Smith is a scientist/engineer who developed the numerical integration technique known as T-integration; He is the author of Mathematical Modeling and Digital Simulation for Engineers and Scientists, Scientific Analysis on the Pocket Calculator, Financial Analysis & Business Decisions on the Pocket Calculator and a class notebook Quantitative Methods in Business published by McGraw Hill. ; born September 6, 1938. Mike worked for NASA on the Space Shuttle program. He was the first marketing manager for the Space Shuttle. His contributions included the preparation of the pricing and use policy for the Shuttle and the fist launch agreements with commercial users. Later he managed the Advanced Communication Technology Satellite experiments program and the commercialization of the NASA polar communications network. Mike retired from the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in January 2007." ; Contents: The pocket calculator -- Difference tables, data analysis and fuction evaluation -- Elementary analysis with the pocket calculator -- Numerical evaluation of advanced functions -- Fourier analysis -- Numerical integration -- Linear systems simulation -- Chebyshev and rational polynomial approximations for analytic substitution -- Determining the roots of a function -- Statistics and probability -- The programmable pocket calculator -- Optimization -- Some tricks of the pocket calculator trade -- Matrix analysis on the pocket calculator -- Key stroke sequences for complex variable analysis and hyperbolic inverse functions. ; FINE/FINE. Book.