Tales of mathematicians and physicists / Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat.
By: Gindikin, S. G. (Semen Grigorevich).
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TextPublisher: New York : Springer, c2007Edition: 2nd English ed.Description: xx, 382 p. ,E39.95 ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0387360263 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 9780387360263 (pbk. : acid-free paper).Uniform titles: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikakh. English Subject(s): Mathematicians -- Biography | Mathematics -- History | Physicists -- Biography | Physics -- History | Science -- HistoryDDC classification: 510.92/2 Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 510.92 ULA Adventures of a mathematician. | 510.92 WEI Andre Weil (1906 - 1998) | 510.922 BEL Men of mathematics / | 510.922 GIN Tales of mathematicians and physicists / | 510.922 JAM Remarkable mathematicians : from Euler to von Neumann / | 510.922 MAS Bourbaki : a secret society of mathematicians / | 510.922 MIS Mathematics and Mathematicians at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur |
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 Poincar�e -- The enigma of Ramanujan -- On the advantages of coordinates and the art of chaining hyperboloids -- The complex world of Roger Penrose.