Tales of mathematicians and physicists / Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Springer, ©2007Edition: 2nd English editionDescription: xx, 382 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780387360263
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510.92
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 Poincare
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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Translation of: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikhakh.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 Poincare

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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