Tales of mathematicians and physicists

Main Author: Gindikin
Other Authors: Shuchat,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Springer, 2007.
Edition:2nd.
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245 1 0 |a Tales of mathematicians and physicists   |c Simon Gindikin;   |f translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat. 
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300 |a xx, 382 p.:   |b ill.;   |c 24 cm. 
501 0 0 |a FAS 
504 0 0 |a Includes bibliographical references 
505 0 0 |a 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 Poincar ̌-- 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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650 0 0 |a Physics --   |x History  
650 0 0 |a Physicists --   |x Biography  
650 0 0 |a Mathematicians --   |x Biography  
650 0 0 |a Mathematics --   |x History  
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