Tales of physicists and mathematicians
By: Semyon Grigorevich Gindikin ; translated by Alan Shuchat.
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Physics  -- History.; Mathematics  -- History.; Science  -- History.
Work titles: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikakh. 
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.
Notes: Translation of: Rasskazy o fizikakh i matematikhakh.

Includes bibliographical references.