Jacob Steiner's Gesammelte Werke 2 Volume Set: Herausgegeben Auf Veranlassung Der Königlich Preussischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften

by Jakob Steiner

The Swiss mathematician Jakob Steiner (1796-1863) came from a poor background with an incomplete education, yet such was his mathematical talent that eventually the Prussian university system adapted itself to him rather than he to it. A geometer in an age dominated by analysts, he pursued his own interests in his own way. The elegant results which bear his name - including Steiner circles, systems and symmetrisation - are known to most mathematicians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108059236
• ISBN13: 9781108059237
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 1362 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.8" x 6.7" x 9.8"