Huygens: The Man behind the Principle
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (727 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521181437 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 476 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Too bad: This book is poorly written and difficult to read Dale Wood Too bad: This book is poorly written and difficult to read.This book might have been poorly written in Dutch to begin with, and that's hard to tell because I don't read Dutch. However, this book seems to have been poorly translated into English by someone who does not understand mathematics very well. (I suppose this because I have seen the same problem with this kind of work that was originally written in French, German, or Latin. The translation into English was not very comprehensible.)The original book was produced with very few diagrams, and that was a big mistake. The
This biography on Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) describes in detail how he arrived at discoveries and inventions often wrongly ascribed to Newton. The great seventeenth-century Dutch mathematician and physicist played a key role in the 'scientific revolution' and the Huygens Principle on the wave theory of light helped establish his reputation. Moreover, the discovery of Saturn's rings and the invention of the pendulum clock made him so famous that he was invited to be the first director of the French Academy of Science.
"a very diligently referenced work" Steven Frankel, MAA Reviews, MathDL
in 1969. . Andriesse studied physical engineering at the Technical University in Delft and gained his Ph.D. Since 1989 he has been a professor at the University of Utrecht, researching energy conversions in fuel cells and wind turbines. In addition to his research articles, Professor Andriesse's non-research publications include a handbook on problems with nuclear energy, for the IAEA, essays on the cul