Calendrical calculations

The millenium edition

Edward M. Reingold, Nachum Dershowitz

422 pages, parution le 12/10/2001

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Résumé

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.

Contents

List of Frontispieces
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1 Introduction 3

I Arithmetical Calendars 45

2 The Gregorian Calendar 47
3 The Julian Calendar 63
4 The Coptic and Ethiopic Calendars 75
5 The ISO Calendar 83
6 The Islamic Calendar 87
7 The Hebrew Calendar 95
8 The Ecclesiastical Calendars 117
9 The Old Hindu Calendars 127
10 The Mayan Calendars 141
11 The Balinese Pawukon Calendar 153

II Astronomical Calendars 163

12 Time and Astronomy 165
13 The Persian Calendar 211
14 The Baha'i Calendar 223
15 The French Revolutionary Calendar 233
16 The Chinese Calendar 241
17 The Modern Hindu Calendars 267
Coda 299
App. A Function, Parameter, and Constant Types 303
App. B Lisp Implementation 317
App. C: Sample Data 395
References 401
Index 403
Envoi 423

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Edward M. Reingold, Nachum Dershowitz
Parution	12/10/2001
Nb. de pages	422
Format	15 x 22,8
Couverture	Broché
Poids	445g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521777520
ISBN13	978-0-521-77752-0