Title: 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.
Subjects: Mathematics, Physics, Science, History