Tales of mathematicians and physicists Simon Gindikin, A. Shuchat (Translator)
Publisher: New York : Springer, c2007.
ISBN: 0387360263
LCC: QA28
Edition: (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes:
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 PoincarÚ³e
-- 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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