Edward M. Reingold

Calendrical Calculations (eBook, PDF)

The Ultimate Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An invaluable resource for working programmers, as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists, astronomers, and other calendar enthusiasts, The Ultimate Edition updates and expands the previous edition to achieve more accurate results and present new calendar variants. The book now includes coverage of Unix dates, Italian time, the Akan, Icelandic, Saudi Arabian Umm al-Qura, and Babylonian calendars. There are also expanded treatments of the observational Islamic and Hebrew calendars and brief discussions of the Samaritan and Nepalese calendars. Several of the astronomical functions have been rewritten to produce more accurate results and to include calculations of moonrise and moonset. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form, allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms is available in machine-readable form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108548038
• Artikelnr.: 53397651

Autorenporträt

Edward M. Reingold is Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he also served as chair from 2000 to 2006. Prior to that, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for thirty years. His research interests are in theoretical computer science, especially the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery since 1996, Reingold has authored or coauthored more than seventy research papers and ten books; his papers on backtrack search, generation of combinations, weight-balanced binary trees, and drawing of trees and graphs are considered classics. Reingold has won awards for his undergraduate and graduate teaching, and is intensely interested in calendars and their computer implementation. He is the author of Calendrical Tabulations (with Nachum Dershowitz, Cambridge, 2002) and is the author and former maintainer of the calendar/diary part of GNU Emacs.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Calendar basics
Part I. Arithmetical Calendars: 2. The Gregorian calendar
3. The Julian calendar
4. The Coptic and Ethiopic calendars
5. The ISO calendar
6. The Icelandic calendar
7. The Islamic calendar
8. The Hebrew calendar
9. The Ecclesiastical calendars
10. The old Hindu calendars
11. The Mayan calendars
12. The Balinese Pawukon calendar
13. Generic Cyclical calendars
Part II. Astronomical Calendars: 14. Time and astronomy
15. The Persian calendar
16. The Bahá'í calendar
17. The French Revolutionary calendar
18. Astronomical Lunar calendars
19. The Chinese calendar
20. The modern Hindu calendars
21. The Tibetan calendar
Part III. Appendices: A. Function, parameter, and constant types
B. Cross references
C. Sample data
D. Lisp implementation.