Robert Oppenheimer's "Other" Side...
Hello,
About a year ago I read American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Bird. Oppenheimer was a physicist, and he loved physics. He was so enamored by the "new" physics of the time (of course I am speaking about the quantum...
@Dragonfall
Have it and have read it. It was such a tease! I need more! =)
@arildno
I do agree with you very much - but for example, I can't remember which Bernoulli did work on the catenary - but it is hard to find a very detailed analysis of hanging chains an so forth in modern texts -...
I am very interested in reading the original works of some famous mathematicians, such as:
Cauchy
Lagrange
Euler
Gauss
The Bernoullis
Riemann
etc.
I have found the their respective works have been collected in volumes (for example, Cauchy has 27 volumes!) but they are all in their...