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: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer
c2007.
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| Edition: | 2nd English ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009461017206719 |
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.
