Silvanus Phillips Thompson

The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs 2 Volume Set

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive biography, first published in 1910, of the influential mathematician and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824 1907).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1368
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 83mm
• Gewicht: 1796g
• ISBN-13: 9781108027199
• ISBN-10: 1108027199
• Artikelnr.: 33167388

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Preface
1. Childhood, and upbringing at Glasgow
2. Cambridge
3. Post-graduate studies at Paris and Peterhouse
4. The Glasgow Chair
5. The young professor
6. Thermodynamics
7. The laboratory
8. The Atlantic telegraph: failure
9. Strenuous years
10. The epoch-making treatise
11. The Atlantic telegraph: success
12. Labour and sorrow
13. The geological controversy
14. Later telegraphic work: the siphon recorder. Volume 2: 15. The 'Lalla Rookh', the British Association, and the 'Hooper'
16. In the Seventies
17. Navigation - the compass and the sounding machine
18. Gyrostatics and wave motion
19. In the Eighties
20. The Baltimore lectures
21. Gathering up the threads
22. The peerage
23. The jubilee. Retirement
24. The great comprehensive theory
25. Views and opinions
26. The closing years
Appendices
Index.