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Hilbert-Courant / Constance Reid.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QA29.H5 R42 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Constance.
- Standardized Title:
- Hilbert
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hilbert, David, 1862-1943.
- Hilbert, David.
- Courant, Richard, 1888-1972.
- Courant, Richard.
- Mathematicians--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 547 pages, 46 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer-Verlag, [1986]
- Summary:
- The interlocking lives of two very different and unique men have been brought together for the first time in this combined edition of Constance Reid's two popular books. The resulting volume spans more than a century of dramatic scientific history, described in the lively nontechnical style which is the hallmark of Mrs. Reid's work.
- Notes:
- Previously published as 2 separate vols.: Hilbert. 1970, and Courant in Göttingen and New York. 1976.
- Hermann Weyl's appreciation of Hilbert's mathematical work, originally in "Hilbert" has been omitted in this new ed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Reid, Constance. Courant in Göttingen and New York. 1986.
- ISBN:
- 0387962565
- OCLC:
- 13218550
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