Symbols and Things : Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries /

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In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lambert, Kevin M., 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Communication in mathematics.
Communication en mathematiques > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Communication en mathematiques > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Communication in mathematics > History > 19th century.
Communication in mathematics > History > 18th century.
Mathematics > Equipment and supplies > History > 19th century.
Mathematics > Equipment and supplies > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Textbook in the marketplace
  • Fences, diaries, and mathematical journals
  • Cambridge Museological Science and the making of English algebra
  • The mathematician's library: George Green George Boole, and Augustus De Morgan
  • Romantic space and imaginary numbers: imagining space through diagrams
  • William Thomson's notebooks
  • Kites and letter: the Peter Guthrie Tait and William Rowan Hamilton correspondence.

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