Mr Wingate's arithmetick [[electronic resource] ] : containing a plain and familiar method for attaining the knowledge and practice of common arithmetick. The ninth edition, very much enlarged. First composed by Edmund Wingate late of Grays-Inn, Esquire. Afterwards, upon Mr. Wingate's request, enlarged in his life-time: also since his decease carefully revised, and much improved, as will appear by the preface, and table of contents, by John Kersey, teacher of the mathematicks, at the sign of the Globe in Shandois-street in Covent-Garden

• Record Nr.: UNISA996390665403316
• Autore: Wingate Edmund <1596-1656.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : printed for John Williams, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1694
• Descrizione fisica: [12], 180, 201-544 p. : ill., tables
• Soggetti: Arithmetic
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Preface signed by John Kersey, who also wrote the "Appendix", pp. [303]-544.; Divisional title on T4r reads in part, "An appendix, containing choice knowledge in arithmetick, both practical and theoretical".; Includes contents leaves for both parts of the work.; Text is continuous despite pagination.; Illustrated with diagrams and practical tables of measurement.; Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0167

A Scientific Autobiography [[electronic resource] ] : S Chandrasekhar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781211203321
• Autore: Wali Kameshwar C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-14837-4; 9786613148377; 981-4299-59-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 523.0109
• Soggetti: Astrophysicists -- United States -- Biography; Astrophysicists -- United States -- Correspondence; Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995 -- Correspondence; Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995; Astrophysicists - United States; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physical Sciences & Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Dedication; Foreword by Kameshwar C. Wali; Preface by S. Chandrasekhar; Contents; I. A History of My Papers on "Radiative Equilibrium" (1943-1948); II. Turbulence; Hydromagnetism (1948-1960); III. The Development of the Virial Method and Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium (1960-1970); IV. General Relativity (1962-1969); V. The Fallow Period (1970-1974); VI. General Relativity; Ryerson Lecture; Separation of Dirac Equation (January 1975-August 1977); VII. General Relativity; Kerr-Newman Perturbations (August 1977-December 1978); VIII. 1979 - A Year of Failures and of Obligations; IX. 1980, 1981: The Mathematical Theory of Black HolesX. POSTSCRIPT: 1982, a Year that Passed; XI. The Beginning of the End (1983-1985); XII. Continued Efforts I (September 1985-May 1987); XIII. Continued Efforts II (May 1987-September 1989); XIV. Continued Efforts III ; (September 1989-October 1991); XV. Continued Efforts IV (November 1991-December 1994); Notes & Comments by Kameshwar C. Wali
• Sommario/riassunto: S. Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Chandra, was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The year 2010 marks the birth centenary of Chandra. His unique style of research, inward bound, seeking a personal perspective to master a particular field, and then pass on to another was so unique that it will draw considerable interest and attention among scholars. As Chandra elucidates in the preface, the various installments describe in detail the evolution of my scientific work during the past forty years and records each investigation, describing the doubts and the successes, the trials