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100 1 _aGindikin, Simon
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aTales of mathematicians and physicists
_c/ Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat
250 _a2nd English edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSpringer,
_c©2007
300 _axx, 382 pages :
_billustrations
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
500 _aTranslation of: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikhakh.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aArs magna (the great art)
505 0 _aTwo tales of Galileo
505 0 _aChristiaan Huygens and pendulum clocks
505 0 _aSecrets of the cycloid
505 0 _aBlaise Pascal
505 0 _aThe beginnings of higher geometry
505 0 _aLeonhard Euler
505 0 _aJoseph Louis Lagrange
505 0 _aPierre-Simon Laplace
505 0 _aPrince of mathematicians
505 0 _aFelix Klein
505 0 _aThe magic world of Henri Poincare
505 0 _aThe enigma of Ramanujan
505 0 _aOn the advantages of coordinates and the art of chaining hyperboloids
505 0 _aThe complex world of Roger Penrose
650 0 _aMathematicians
_vBiography
650 0 _aMathematics
_xHistory
650 0 _aPhysicists
_vBiography
650 0 _aPhysics
_xHistory
700 1 _aShuchat, Alan
_etranslator
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
690 _aScience