New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Subtitle: Volume 7: Tammes - Zygmund
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Gale Cengage; Charles Scribner & Sons; Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: December 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 4400
ISBN-13: 9780684313207
Subjects: Biography: general; Dictionaries; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Reference; Scientists - General; Bibliographies & Indexes
Description: "The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, features more than 800 completely new articles. This new work extends, complements, and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature" -- publisher website (January 2008).