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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...

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Personal Name(s): Heard, John, author
Imprint: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019
Physical Description: 1 online resource (267 pages)
Note: englisch
ISBN: 9781316415726
9781107124134
Subject (LOC):
Mathematicians
Mathematics
Mathematics
Aesthetics.
Mathematics in nature.
History
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  • 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.

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