01351pamaa2200277 4500 0000046135 20121206090000.0 091007 eng 9780387360263 / 0387360263 (pbk.) QA28 GIN 2007 Gindikin Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikakh Tales of mathematicians and physicists Simon Gindikin; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat. 2nd. New York: Springer, 2007. xx, 382 p.: ill.; 24 cm. FAS 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 Poincar ̌-- The enigma of Ramanujan -- On the advantages of coordinates and the art of chaining hyperboloids -- The complex world of Roger Penrose Science -- History Physics -- History Physicists -- Biography Mathematicians -- Biography Mathematics -- History Shuchat, Alan http://www.Springer.com