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The Intrinsic Nature of Things: The Life and Science of Cornelius Lanczos
About this Title
Barbara Gellai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Publication: Miscellaneous Books
Publication Year:
2010; Volume 76
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5166-1 (print); 978-1-4704-1608-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/mbk/076
MathSciNet review: MR2722916
MSC: Primary 01A70
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Chapter 1. Background
- Chapter 2. Family and basic studies
- Chapter 3. A change in our world view: The theory of relativity
- Chapter 4. Higher studies
- Chapter 5. Lanczos’s early research in the theory of relativity
- Chapter 6. Contribution to quantum mechanics
- Chapter 7. Purdue beginnings
- Chapter 8. The educator
- Chapter 9. “Why mathematics?”
- Chapter 10. Ripples on the old pond’s surface
- Chapter 11. The Lanczos Method
- Chapter 12. Full-time research
- Chapter 13. Nature’s Pythagorean theorem
- Chapter 14. Probing Riemannian space
- Epilogue
- A brief professional chronology of Cornelius Lanczos
- Published papers and books of Cornelius Lanczos