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Tales of mathematicians and physicists
Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikakh. English
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- Creator
- Simon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second English edition, revised and enlarged
- New York : Springer, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xx, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0387488111, 9780387488110, 1280852496, 9786610852499, 0387360263, 9780387360263
- OCLC
- ocm77481040, ocn186510895
- 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 Poincaré -- The enigma of Ramanujan -- On the advantages of coordinates and the art of chaining hyperboloids -- The complex world of Roger Penrose