{"title":"The Book Review Column","authors":"Nicholas Tran","doi":"10.1145/3639528.3639530","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible (2021 ed.) by Paul J. Nahin updates a historical but highly technical account of \"what many brilliant mathematicians have done in the subject of extrema over the last two dozen centuries.\"","PeriodicalId":387985,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGACT News","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM SIGACT News","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3639528.3639530","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible (2021 ed.) by Paul J. Nahin updates a historical but highly technical account of "what many brilliant mathematicians have done in the subject of extrema over the last two dozen centuries."