Description
This comprehensive and authoritative dictionary provides clear definitions of units, prefixes, and styles of weights and measures within the Système International (SI), as well as traditional, and industry-specific units. It also includes general historical and scientific background, covering
the development of the sequential definitions and sizing of units. This new reference work will prove invaluable to professional scientists, engineers, technicians as well as to students and the general user.
Author: Donald Fenna
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/26/2002
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.30w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780198605225
ISBN10: 0198605226
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Reference
- Mathematics | Reference
- Reference | Dictionaries
the development of the sequential definitions and sizing of units. This new reference work will prove invaluable to professional scientists, engineers, technicians as well as to students and the general user.
Author: Donald Fenna
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/26/2002
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.30w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780198605225
ISBN10: 0198605226
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Reference
- Mathematics | Reference
- Reference | Dictionaries
About the Author
After working as a research scientist at the Weapons Research Establishment for the Commonwealth of Australia, as a systems analyst for the Australian Department of Defence, and as the Assistant Director-General for the Australian telecommunications authority, Donald Fenna was made a Professor in
the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta. He has over 60 publications in learned journals and books covering mathematics, management, computing, and medicine, including Elsevier's Encyclopedic Dictionary of Measures.
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