Title: On the shoulders of giants /
Authors: Lines, Malcolm E.
Publisher: Institute of Physics Pub.,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Mathematics Popular works
Contents: From Aristotle to the structure of glass -- From Euclid to general relativity -- From plucking strings to electrons in solids -- The perception of number : from integers to quaternions -- From tiling floors to quasicrystals -- Determinism : from Newton to quantum chaos -- Symmetry : from Galois to superstrings -- From coin tossing to entropy -- Topology : from the bridges of Königsberg to polymers -- From parabolas to fractions -- Motion : from Zeno to Schrödinger.