Loading…
Mathematics and Social Utopias in France : Olinde Rodrigues and His Times.
A mathematician, a social reformer within Saint-Simon's utopian-socialist movement, and later a prosperous banker, Olinde Rodrigues is a fascinating figure of the city of Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century. His many interests and associations make him a remarkable character in th...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Providence :
American Mathematical Society,
2013.
|
| Series: | History of mathematics.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Introduction; Olinde Rodrigues and his times; Towards a better understanding of Olinde Rodrigues and his circle: Family and faith in his life and career; Euphrasie and Olinde Rodrigues: The 'woman question' within Saint-Simonism; Rodrigues's early work in mathematics, 1813-1816; The 1839 paper on permutations: Its relation to the Rodrigues formula and further developments; Olinde Rodrigues and combinatorics; Olinde Rodrigues's paper of 1840 on a group of transformations; After Rodrigues: From rotations to quaternions; Index.