- Hardcover: 406 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Jan 26 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521816874
- ISBN-13: 978-0521816878
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.9 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 794 g
- See Complete Table of Contents
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"Remarkable Physicists offers 50 biographies by mathematician Ioan James. A useful reference..." New Scientist
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This book is ideal for anyone who would like to read about the lives of some of the most remarkable physicists born since the second half of the seventeenth century. Each of the fifty-five physicists profiled have made important contributions to physics, through their ideas and teaching, or in other ways. The biographies are arranged chronologically by the physicists' dates of birth, so that, when read in sequence, they convey how physics developed over time. However, the book emphasizes their varied life stories, not the details of their achievements. Ioan James is Professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of Remarkable Mathematicians (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Topological and Uniform Spaces (Springer-Verlag, 1999).
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Only on physicists' life and almost none on their achievement!!!, May 8 2007
By Wan Koon Yat "wankoonyat" - Published on Amazon.com
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Of course I understand that Ioan James's intention of writing this book is to give us a more " human " aspect about the physicists and not a work on the theory of physics. I fully agree. However he should at least stateat least very briefly about the achievement of the great physicist!! Take for an example, in describing Ampere, he does not even mention about the Ampere's law!!! I think at least in describing various physicists, he should at least state briefly about what contribution of those hysicists. Just on sentence about the equation of the laws would make this book far more interesting! Otherwise, just mention the date of birth, when the phyicist went to univerisity, when he married, when he died etc. I would ask, then what make this physicists worthy of a brief biography and separae them from just an ordinary people?????????????????
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