From servant to queen : a journey through Victorian Mathematics [E-Book] / John Heard.
From servant to queen : a journey through Victorian Mathematics [E-Book] / John Heard.
With a few notable exceptions, pure mathematics in Britain at the beginning of the nineteenth century was mainly a recreation for amateurs. Drawing on primary sources, John Heard provides an engaging account of the process by which it rose to become an academic discipline of repute which by the Firs...
| Personal Name(s): | Heard, John, (author) |
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| Imprint: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (267 pages) |
| Note: |
englisch |
| ISBN: |
9781316415726 9781107124134 |
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Full Text |
Table of Contents:
- Setting the scene
- The legacy of Newton
- The London Mathematical Society
- The pure mathematician as hero
- Mathematicians in an aethereal world
- Apologias for pure mathematicians
- Embracing beauty
- Epilogue.