Kevin Knox

From Newton to Hawking

A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics

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Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the most celebrated academic positions in the world. Since its foundation in 1663, the chair has been held by seventeen men who represent some of the best and most influential minds in science and technology. Principally a social history of mathematics and physics, the story of these great natural philosophers and mathematical physicists is told here by some of the finest historians of science. The journey begins with the search for a benefactor able to establish a 'mathematicus professor honorarius', and travels through the life and work of the professors, exploring aspec… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Noakes, Richard / Knox, Kevin (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-66310-6
EAN: 9780521663106
Produktnummer: 8447734
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 516 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.2 cm 935 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 935

Über den Autor

Kevin Knox is Historian at the Institute Archives, Caltech. He has held positions as Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in the Humanities at Caltech. Richard Noakes is a British Academy-Royal Society Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the History of Science, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University. He previously held a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield.