Symbols and things material mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lambert, Kevin M., 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021
Series:Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Mathematics > Equipment and supplies > History > 18th century.
Mathematics > Equipment and supplies > History > 19th century.
Communication in mathematics > History > 18th century.
Communication in mathematics > History > 19th century.
Communication en mathématiques > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Communication en mathématiques > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Communication in mathematics
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Mathematical Work
  • Part I. Distributing
  • Chapter 1. Textbook in the Marketplace
  • Chapter 2. Fences, Diaries, and Mathematical Journals
  • Part II. Assembling
  • Chapter 3. Cambridge Museological Science and the Making of English Algebra
  • Chapter 4. The Mathematician's Library: George Green, George Boole, and Augustus De Morgan
  • Part III. Practicing
  • Chapter 5. Romantic Space and Imaginary Numbers: Imagining Space through Diagrams
  • Chapter 6. William Thomson's Notebooks
  • Chapter 7. Kites and Letters: The Peter Guthrie Tait and William Rowan Hamilton Correspondence
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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