Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke
Subtitle: Pioneers in Mathematical Analysis and Catastrophe Theory from Evolvements to Quasicrystals
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: September 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780817623838
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; History Of Mathematics; Mathematics; 17th century; History; Mathematical Analysis; Mathematical Physics
First sentence: The year 1987 was the 300th anniversary of the publication of Newton's Principia, the book that laid the foundations of the whole of modern theoretical physics.