Stories by Sir Edmund Whittaker

This 19th-century Irishman was a famous child prodigy who later became one of the greatest of all mathematicians. His calculus of quaternions has come to the fore in modern theoretical physics

He conceived the "FitzGerald contraction" to explain the failure of a celebrated experiment to detect the aether. He died in 1901, too soon to know that his notion led to the theory of relativity

Pure mathematicians have become more rigorous and applied mathematicians less inhibited. The interaction of mathematics and physics continues to enrich both

A remarkable book about Einstein, written by the subject and his colleagues in physics

An examination of the link between modern physics and the ideas of cause and chance