Tales of mathematicians and physicists
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York:
Springer,
2007.
|
| Edition: | 2nd. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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 Poincar ̌
- The enigma of Ramanujan
- On the advantages of coordinates and the art of chaining hyperboloids
- The complex world of Roger Penrose