``Rayleigh's rotating ring

DOI10.1007/S00283-017-9722-1MaRDI QIDQ2400837zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul J. Nahin

Publication date 30 August 2017

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-017-9722-1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General histories, source books (01A05) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

Review text

This essay is based on material from the author's forthcoming book ``Mathematical Physics: How Physicists Use Mathematics and Computers to Understand the Physical World, Princeton University Press (to appear). A lively exposition of Rayleigh's problem, very interesting to read.

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