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Tales of Mathematicians
and Physicists
Simon Gindikin
Tales of Mathematicians
and Physicists
Translated from the Russian by Alan Shuchat
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Simon Gindikin
Department of Mathematics
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ 08854
USA
Alan Shuchat ( Translator )
Department of Mathematics
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02181
USA
Cover design by Alex Gerasev.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 01AXX, 01A70
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006935553
ISBN-10 0-387-36026-3
e-ISBN-10: 0-387-048811-1
ISBN-13 978-387-36026-3
e-ISBN-13: 978-0-387-48811-0
Printed on acid-free paper.
2007 Second English edition Springer Science + Business Media, LLC
Translation by Alan Shuchat based on the third Russian edition: Rasskazy o Fizikakh i Matematikakh.
Izdatel’stvo Moskovskogo. Zentra Nepreryvnogo Matematicheskogo Obrazovania, Moscow, Russia,
2001.
First edition of Tales of Physicists and Mathematicians , Birkhauser Boston, c
1988.
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Contents
Preface to the English Edition ........................................ vii
Preface to the Third Russian Edition..................................xiii
Preface to the First Russian Edition ...................................xvii
Ars Magna (The Great Art) ........................................... 1
Two Tales of Galileo.................................................. 27
Christiaan Huygens and Pendulum Clocks ........................... 79
Secrets of the Cycloid ................................................ 93
Blaise Pascal .........................................................129
The Beginnings of Higher Geometry .................................151
Leonhard Euler ......................................................171
Joseph Louis Lagrange ...............................................213
Pierre-Simon Laplace ................................................247
Prince of Mathematicians ............................................263
Felix Klein ...........................................................311
The Magic World of Henri Poincaré ..................................323

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