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Tales of mathematicians and physicists /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gindikin, S. G. (Semen Grigorʹevich)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English, translated from the Russian.
Published: New York : Springer, [2007]
Edition:2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Subjects:
Mathematicians > Biography.
Mathematics > History.
Physicists > Biography.
Physics > History.
Science > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Ars magna (the great art)
  • Two tales of Galileo
  • Christiaan Huygens and pendulum clocks
  • Secrets of the cycloid
  • Blaise Pascal
  • The beginnings of higher geometry
  • Leonhard Euler
  • Joseph Louis Lagrange
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace
  • Prince of mathematicians
  • Felix Klein
  • The magic world of Henri Poincaré
  • The enigma of Ramanujan
  • On the advantages of coordinates and the art of chaining hyperboloids
  • The complex world of Roger Penrose.