Calendrical Calculations Millennium edition
Calendrical Calculations Millennium edition
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This new edition of the successful calendars book is being published in the new millennium and expands the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants. Calendrical Calculations makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use with LISP and Java code for all the algorithms included on CD, and updates available on the Web. It gives a description of fourteen calendars and how they relate to one another: the present civil calendar (Gregorian), the recent ISO commercial calendar, the old civil calendar (Julian), the Coptic and Ethiopic calendars, the Islamic (Moslem) calendar; the Baha'i, the Hebrew (Jewish) calendar, the Mayan calendars, the French Revolutionary calendar, the Chinese calendar, and both the old (mean) and new (true) Hindu (Indian) calendars. This new edition will be a valuable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists.
- New edition of successful calendar book re-issued for the millennium
- Has general appeal across computer science and beyond
- Includes listings of LISP code and Web access for Java version: both sets of code available on accompanying CD
Reviews & endorsements
"The work is attractively produced and well written, in a crisp and lucid style, its earnest content lightened by touches of humor and details of history that communicate most effectively the authors' enthusiasm for and knowledge of their subject. The book's major contribution is that, for the first time, it places an authoritative computational specification of all these calendars in the public domain. Indeed, this book supplies the essential tools to enable us to proceed cogently and efficiently toward correlation of all these derivative calendrical systems, and Dershowitz and Reingold are to be congratulated on making such strides toward this goal." ISIS
Product details
August 2001Mixed media product
9780521771672
456 pages
238 × 158 × 28 mm
0.742kg
Replaced by 9780521777520
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Arithmetical Calendars:
- 2. The Gregorian calendar
- 3. The ISO calendar
- 4. The Julian calendar
- 5. The Coptic and Ethiopic calendars
- 6. The Islamic calendar
- 7. The Persian calendar
- 8. The Balinese calendar
- 9. The Baha'i calendar
- 10. The Hebrew calendar
- 11. The Mayan calendar
- 12. The Old Hindu calendars
- Part II. Astronomical Calendars:
- 13. Time and astronomy
- 14. The French Revolutionary calendar
- 15. The Chinese calendar
- 16. The Modern Hindu calendars
- 17. Coda
- Appendices.
