Publication:4220178
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Publication date: 22 November 1998
calculus; thermodynamics; error analysis; astronomy; algebra; dimensional analysis; electricity; physics
01-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography
00-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mathematics in general
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