Calendrical calculations : the millennium edition
This new edition of the successful calendars book is being published in the new millennium, and includes new calendar variants. The book presents a description of fourteen calendars and how they relate to one another. Calendrical Calculations makes accurate calendrical algorithms readily available for computer use.
Print Book, English, 2001
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001
xxxii, 422 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
9780521771672, 9780521777520, 0521771676, 0521777526
316533406
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.
Includes 1 CD-ROM in pocket attached to inside bak cover