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Tales of mathematicians and physicists [electronic resource] / Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Gindikin, S. G. (Semen Grigorʹevich)
Other title:Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikakh. English
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, ©2007.
Edition:2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Subjects:
Mathematicians > Biography.
Physicists > Biography.
Mathematics > History.
Physics > History.
Science > History.
Mathematicians.
Mathematics.
Physicists.
Physics.
Science.
Biography.
History.
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 Poincaré
  • 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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