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020 $a0387360263 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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020 $z0387488111 (e-ISBN)
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050 00 $aQA28$b.G5613 2007
082 00 $a510.92/2$222
100 1 $aGindikin, S. G.$q(Semen Grigorʹevich)
240 10 $aRasskazy o fizikakh i matematikakh.$lEnglish
245 10 $aTales of mathematicians and physicists /$cSimon Gindikin ; translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat.
250 $a2nd English ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSpringer,$cc2007.
300 $axx, 382 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aArs 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.
650 0 $aMathematicians$vBiography.
650 0 $aMathematics$xHistory.
650 0 $aPhysicists$vBiography.
650 0 $aPhysics$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.