Cornell has published a series of Mathematical Biographies of a number of famous mathematicians. When I do history portions of my classes I have often referred here. It is worth a scroll for your favorites. Check out Krylov for instance. http://dynkincollection.library.cornell.edu/ http://dynkincollection.library.cornell.edu/browsebios
Category Archives: History
Leonardo da Vinci
Subcritical Assembly
Navier Choisy Bridge Signature (1785)
Dirac and Feynman Discussion
One Explosion Tests and thoughts on Terribleness
Trinity: the first four seconds. Oppenheimer later told journalists, “If you ask: can we make them more terrible, the answer is yes; if you ask: can we make more of them, the answer is yes; if you ask: can we make them terribly more terrible, the answer is-probably.”
Journal of Dr. Feynman
Space Shuttle / O-Ring Cutaway
Cutaway explanation of the O-Ring disaster within reports of one Prof. R. Feynman.
Laminar Flow
Apparently, laminar flow was traditionally called Hagen-Poiseuille flow, named after Hagen’s work in 1839. In 1839, Hagen saw transitional effects between laminar and turbulent flow, which would not be collapsed until much later through the experiments of Reynolds.