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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gindikin, Simon (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:2nd ed. 2007.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
History.
Physics-Philosophy.
Engineering.
Life sciences.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Science.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
Technology and Engineering.
Life Sciences.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Physical Sciences.
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.

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