Book ID: CBB001250393

A Passion for Discovery (2007)

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Freund, Peter G. O. (Author)


World Scientific


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xvi + 221 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Tells stories of physicists and mathematicians in the 20th century and the impact of historical events on them.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Ehrhardt, Caroline
Bernardini, Carlo
Christian Gerini
Greco, Pietro
Rossi, Andrea
Arrighi, Claudia
Journals
Historical Records of Australian Science
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Science in Context
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Publishers
Luigi Pellegrini Editore
World Scientific
Text. Verlag.
Springer Science + Business Media
Oxford University Press
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Biographies
Science and society
Physics
Mathematicians
Science and culture
People
Galois, Évariste
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Einstein, Albert
Maggi, Gian Antonio
Pauling, Linus Carl
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
France
Australia
Milan (Italy)
United States
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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