Publication

1988 - Birkhauser, Boston

Language

English

Word Count

39,250 words, Guess

Page Count

157 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing1239968

Classifications

  • DDC530/.09
  • LCCQC7 .G5613 1988

Description

A lively account of the lives and achievements of such outstanding scientists as Tartaglia, Galileo, Heygens, Pascal, and Gauss. Originally written for students in the Soviet Union, the book describes the situation of mathematics and physics in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries tracing the thread of scientific discovery from one generation to the next.

Subjects

Topics

SciencePhysicsHistoryMathematicsScience -- History.Physics -- History.Mathematics -- History.

Other Editions

  • Tales of physicists and mathematiciansBirkhauser1988

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