Tales of Mathematicians and Physicists

• Main Author: Gindikin, Simon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Physics.; Popular works.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Popular Science, general.

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...

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.