Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists
This revised and greatly expanded second edition of the Russian text Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians contains a wealth of new information about the lives and accomplishments of more than a dozen scientists throughout five centuries of history: from the first steps in algebra up to new achieve...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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Edition: | 2nd ed. 2007. |
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Online Access: | Texto Completo |
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.