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Bookwatch, The, April, 2005
Approximating Perfection
Leonid P. Lebedev & Michael J. Cloud
Princeton University Press
41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
0691117268 $29.95 1-800-777-4726
College-level readers who enjoy thinking about how Nature can be described using math will find Leonid Lebedev and Michael Cloud's Approximating Perfection: A Mathematician's Journey Into The World Of Mechanics, a fine survey of applied mechanics and its lighter side. Formal engineering courses often bypass such topics as how models remain imperfect and under-developed: Approximating Perfection surveys these and other issues, emphasizing underlying logic and parallels between mechanics and math.
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