| Description |
323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: St. Lucia, Qld. : UQP, 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A seamless intertwining -- A reluctant revolutionary -- Beetles, strings and sealing wax -- The nature of physics -- The language of physics -- Why Newton held the world in thrall -- Rites of passage -- A fledgling physicist -- Electromagnetic controversy -- Mathematics as language -- The magical synthesis of algebra an geometry -- Maxwell's mathematical language -- Maxwell's rainbow -- Imagining the world with the language of mathematics: a revolution in physics. |
| Subject |
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
|
|
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
|
|
Mathematical physics -- History.
|
|
Physicists -- Biography.
|
|
Science -- Popular works.
|
| ISBN |
0195183703 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780195183702 |
|
