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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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Language: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2007.
Cham : Springer Nature |
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| Online Access: | Accès sur la plateforme de l'éditeur Accès sur la plateforme Istex Accès Université d'Orléans Accès INSA CVL |
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Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) Archives Springer e-books (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists, Texte imprimé, 9780387360263 • Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists, Texte imprimé, 9780387514970 |
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.