Tales of mathematicians and physicists - Gindikin; Shuchat (New York: Springer, 2007)
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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Includes bibliographical references
Keywords: Science -- -- History; Physics -- -- History; Physicists -- -- Biography; Mathematicians -- -- Biography; Mathematics -- -- History