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Tales of mathematicians and physicists
Uniform Title
Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikakh. English
Title
Tales of mathematicians and physicists / Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat.
ISBN
0387360263
9780387360263
Edition
2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Published
New York : Springer, c2007.
Physical Description
xx, 382 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translation of: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikhakh.
In English, translated from the Russian.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 21, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references.
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.
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