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Book Synopsis Mathematics in Victorian Britain by : Raymond Flood
Download or read book Mathematics in Victorian Britain written by Raymond Flood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author :photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis Publisher :Oxford University Press ISBN 13 :0191627933 Total Pages :477 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (916 download)
Book Synopsis Mathematics in Victorian Britain by : photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis
Download or read book Mathematics in Victorian Britain written by photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That spirit of creativity and ingenuity was reflected in the massive expansion in scope and complexity of many scientific disciplines during this time, with subjects evolving rapidly and the creation of many new disciplines. The subject of mathematics was no exception and many of the advances made by mathematicians during the Victorian period are still familiar today; matrices, vectors, Boolean algebra, histograms, and standard deviation were just some of the innovations pioneered by these mathematicians. This book constitutes perhaps the first general survey of the mathematics of the Victorian period. It assembles in a single source research on the history of Victorian mathematics that would otherwise be out of the reach of the general reader. It charts the growth and institutional development of mathematics as a profession through the course of the 19th century in England, Scotland, Ireland, and across the British Empire. It then focuses on developments in specific mathematical areas, with chapters ranging from developments in pure mathematical topics (such as geometry, algebra, and logic) to Victorian work in the applied side of the subject (including statistics, calculating machines, and astronomy). Along the way, we encounter a host of mathematical scholars, some very well known (such as Charles Babbage, James Clerk Maxwell, Florence Nightingale, and Lewis Carroll), others largely forgotten, but who all contributed to the development of Victorian mathematics.
Author :photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis Publisher :OUP Oxford ISBN 13 :0191627941 Total Pages :480 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (916 download)
Book Synopsis Mathematics in Victorian Britain by : photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis
Download or read book Mathematics in Victorian Britain written by photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That spirit of creativity and ingenuity was reflected in the massive expansion in scope and complexity of many scientific disciplines during this time, with subjects evolving rapidly and the creation of many new disciplines. The subject of mathematics was no exception and many of the advances made by mathematicians during the Victorian period are still familiar today; matrices, vectors, Boolean algebra, histograms, and standard deviation were just some of the innovations pioneered by these mathematicians. This book constitutes perhaps the first general survey of the mathematics of the Victorian period. It assembles in a single source research on the history of Victorian mathematics that would otherwise be out of the reach of the general reader. It charts the growth and institutional development of mathematics as a profession through the course of the 19th century in England, Scotland, Ireland, and across the British Empire. It then focuses on developments in specific mathematical areas, with chapters ranging from developments in pure mathematical topics (such as geometry, algebra, and logic) to Victorian work in the applied side of the subject (including statistics, calculating machines, and astronomy). Along the way, we encounter a host of mathematical scholars, some very well known (such as Charles Babbage, James Clerk Maxwell, Florence Nightingale, and Lewis Carroll), others largely forgotten, but who all contributed to the development of Victorian mathematics.
Book Synopsis Mathematical Visions by : Joan L. Richards
Download or read book Mathematical Visions written by Joan L. Richards and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of science, mathematicians and general readers will find this to be a carefully researched and nicely written account of what 19th century English mathematicians (particularly the geometers) imagined themselves to be doing, of what they imagined to be the nature of mathematics. The author.
Download or read book Mr Hopkins' Men written by A.D.D. Craik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-known album of pencil and watercolour portraits. The artist of most (perhaps all) was Thomas Charles Wageman. Created during 1829–1852, these portraits are of pupils of the famous mat- matical tutor William Hopkins. Though I knew much about several of the subjects, the names of others were then unknown to me. I was prompted to discover more about them all, and gradually this interest evolved into the present book. The project has expanded naturally to describe the Cambridge educational milieu of the time, the work of William Hopkins, and the later achievements of his pupils and their contemporaries. As I have taught applied mathematics in a British university for forty years, during a time of rapid change, the struggles to implement and to resist reform in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge struck a chord of recognition. So, too, did debates about academic standards of honours degrees. And my own experiences, as a graduate of a Scottish university who proceeded to C- bridge for postgraduate work, gave me a particular interest in those Scots and Irish students who did much the same more than a hundred years earlier. As a mathematician, I sometimes felt frustrated at having to suppress virtually all of the ? ne mathematics associated with this period: but to have included such technical material would have made this a very different book.
Book Synopsis Equations from God by : Daniel J. Cohen
Download or read book Equations from God written by Daniel J. Cohen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating history explores the complex relationship between mathematics, religious belief, and Victorian culture. Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction methods. But the religious upheaval in Victorian England and the fledgling United States opened the way for the rediscovery of pure mathematics, a tradition rooted in Ancient Greece. In Equations from God, Daniel J. Cohen captures the origins of the rebirth of abstract mathematics in the intellectual quest to rise above common existence and touch the mind of the deity. Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular philosophies.
Book Synopsis Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914 by : C. Jones
Download or read book Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880–1914 written by C. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses nineteenth-century ideas about women's intellect, femininity and masculinity, and assesses how these attitudes shaped women's experiences as students and practitioners.
Book Synopsis Equations from God by : Daniel J. Cohen
Download or read book Equations from God written by Daniel J. Cohen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-04-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction methods. But the religious upheaval in Victorian England and the fledgling United States opened the way for the rediscovery of pure mathematics, a tradition rooted in Ancient Greece. In Equations from God, Daniel J. Cohen captures the origins of the rebirth of abstract mathematics in the intellectual quest to rise above common existence and touch the mind of the deity. Using an array of published and private sources, Cohen shows how philosophers and mathematicians seized upon the beautiful simplicity inherent in mathematical laws to reconnect with the divine and traces the route by which the divinely inspired mathematics of the Victorian era begot later secular philosophies.
Download or read book Arthur Cayley written by A. J. Crilly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and elegantly composed, this biography makes clear the scope of Arthur Cayley's prodigious achievements, firmly enshrining him as the Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age.
Download or read book Embracing Beauty written by John Heard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of pure mathematics during the long nineteenth century in Britain, with extensive references and primary sources.
Book Synopsis The History of Victorian Innovations: Equivalent Fractions: Read-along ebook by : Saskia Lacey
Download or read book The History of Victorian Innovations: Equivalent Fractions: Read-along ebook written by Saskia Lacey and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2020-11-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the Victorian era while building your knowledge of equivalent fractions! Students will learn fractions while engaged in reading about the innovations of the Victorian era. This book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. The glossary, index, and table of contents will further understanding of reading and math concepts, and the full-color images, practice problems, and math graphs and charts make learning math easy, practical, and fun. The Explore Math sidebars and Math Talk problems will develop students higher order thinking skills, and also provide additional opportunities for students to apply what theyve learned.
Book Synopsis Masters of Theory by : Andrew Warwick
Download or read book Masters of Theory written by Andrew Warwick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Book Synopsis Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain by : Gowan Dawson
Download or read book Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Gowan Dawson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.
Book Synopsis The History of Victorian Innovations: Equivalent Fractions by : Saskia Lacey
Download or read book The History of Victorian Innovations: Equivalent Fractions written by Saskia Lacey and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the Victorian era while building your knowledge of equivalent fractions! Students will learn fractions while engaged in reading about the innovations of the Victorian era. This book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. The glossary, index, and table of contents will further understanding of reading and math concepts, and the full-color images, practice problems, and math graphs and charts make learning math easy, practical, and fun. The Explore Math sidebars and Math Talk problems will develop students higher order thinking skills, and also provide additional opportunities for students to apply what theyve learned.
Book Synopsis Algebraic Art by : Andrea K. Henderson
Download or read book Algebraic Art written by Andrea K. Henderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algebraic Art explores the invention of a peculiarly Victorian account of the nature and value of aesthetic form, and it traces that account to a surprising source: mathematics. The nineteenth century was a moment of extraordinary mathematical innovation, witnessing the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the revaluation of symbolic algebra, and the importation of mathematical language into philosophy. All these innovations sprang from a reconception of mathematics as a formal rather than a referential practice—as a means for describing relationships rather than quantities. For Victorian mathematicians, the value of a claim lay not in its capacity to describe the world but its internal coherence. This concern with formal structure produced a striking convergence between mathematics and aesthetics: geometers wrote fables, logicians reconceived symbolism, and physicists described reality as consisting of beautiful patterns. Artists, meanwhile, drawing upon the cultural prestige of mathematics, conceived their work as a 'science' of form, whether as lines in a painting, twinned characters in a novel, or wavelike stress patterns in a poem. Avant-garde photographs and paintings, fantastical novels like Flatland and Lewis Carroll's children's books, and experimental poetry by Swinburne, Rossetti, and Patmore created worlds governed by a rigorous internal logic even as they were pointedly unconcerned with reference or realist protocols. Algebraic Art shows that works we tend to regard as outliers to mainstream Victorian culture were expressions of a mathematical formalism that was central to Victorian knowledge production and that continues to shape our understanding of the significance of form.
Book Synopsis The Universal Book of Mathematics by : David Darling
Download or read book The Universal Book of Mathematics written by David Darling and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for David Darling The Universal Book of Astronomy "A first-rate resource for readers and students of popular astronomy and general science. . . . Highly recommended." -Library Journal "A comprehensive survey and . . . a rare treat." -Focus The Complete Book of Spaceflight "Darling's content and presentation will have any reader moving from entry to entry." -The Observatory magazine Life Everywhere "This remarkable book exemplifies the best of today's popular science writing: it is lucid, informative, and thoroughly enjoyable." -Science Books & Films "An enthralling introduction to the new science of astrobiology." -Lynn Margulis Equations of Eternity "One of the clearest and most eloquent expositions of the quantum conundrum and its philosophical and metaphysical implications that I have read recently." -The New York Times Deep Time "A wonderful book. The perfect overview of the universe." -Larry Niven
Book Synopsis The History of Victorian Innovations: Equivalent Fractions by : Saskia Lacey
Download or read book The History of Victorian Innovations: Equivalent Fractions written by Saskia Lacey and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the Victorian era while building your knowledge of equivalent fractions! Students will learn fractions while engaged in reading about the innovations of the Victorian era. This math reader combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. The glossary, index, and table of contents will further understanding of reading and math concepts, and the full-color images, practice problems, and math graphs and charts make learning math easy, practical, and fun. The Explore Math sidebars and Math Talk problems will develop students’ higher order thinking skills, and also provide additional opportunities for students to apply what they’ve learned.
