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Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis, Writer, photographer and broadcaster

Mathematics in Victorian Britain

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With a foreword by Adam Hart-Davis, this book constitutes perhaps the first general survey of the mathematics of the Victorian period. It charts the institutional development of mathematics as a profession, as well as exploring the numerous innovations made during this time, many of which are still familiar today.

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Weitere Autoren: Flood, Raymond (Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford) (Hrsg.) / Rice, Adrian (Professor of Mathematics, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia) (Hrsg.) / Wilson, Robin (Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Open University, and Stipendiary Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, Pembroke College, Oxford) (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-960139-4
  • EAN: 9780199601394
  • Produktnummer: 22679040
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Masse: H25.2 cm x B19.7 cm x D3.2 cm 1'106 g
  • Abbildungen: 252 illustrations
  • Gewicht: 1106
  • Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Über den Autor


Raymond Flood is Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford where, prior to this, he was Vice President. He has worked as a university lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University and was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. Adrian Rice is Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where his research focuses on 19th-century and early 20th-century British mathematics. He is a two-time recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's Tevor Evans Award for outstanding expository writing.Robin Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, formerly Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and president-elect of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He is involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history, and in 2005 was awarded a Pólya prize by the Mathematical Association of America for outstanding expository writing. He was formerly Editor-in-Chiefof the European Mathematical Society's Newsletter and Chair of the Committee on Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics.

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