Tales of mathematicians and physicists / Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat
By: Gindikin, Simon [author].
Contributor(s): Shuchat, Alan [translator].
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BookPublisher: New York : Springer, ©2007Edition: 2nd English edition.Description: xx, 382 pages : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780387360263.Subject(s): Mathematicians -- Biography | Mathematics -- History | Physicists -- Biography | Physics -- History | Science| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | Main Library Reference Section | Circulation | C 510.92 G492t 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | 116253d |
Translation of: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikhakh.
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 Poincare
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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