Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Significant Figures - John Fauvel

Significant Figures

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2000
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-852309-3 (ISBN)
CHF 74,95 inkl. MwSt
  • Titel ist leider vergriffen;
    keine Neuauflage
  • Artikel merken
For 800 years, mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters who helped to shape it.
This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For 800 years mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This highly readable and beautifully illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters who helped to shape it. The story begins with the founding of the university of Oxford and the establishing of the medieval curriculum, in which mathematics had an important role. The Black Death, the advent of printing, the founding of the university of Cambridge, and the Newtonian revolution all had a great influence on the later development of mathematics at Oxford. So too did many well-known figures: Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Benjamin Jowett, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, G. H. Hardy, to name but a few. Later chapters bring us to the twentieth century, and the book ends with some entertaining reminiscences by Sir Michael Atiyah of the thirty years he spent as an Oxford mathematician.

800 years of Oxford mathematics [Alfred the Great, Roger Bacon, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Florence Nightingale, G. H. Hardy, Roger Penrose]; Medieval Oxford [Richard of Wallingford, Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Bradwardine]; Renaissance Oxford [Henry Savile, Thoms Harriot, Henry Briggs]; Mathematical Instruments [Robert Boyle, Edmund Hunter, Robert Hooke]; The Mid-Seventeenth Century [Christopher Wren, John Locke, Robert Hooke]; John Wallis [Seth Ward, Thoms Hobbes, Robert Wood]; Edmond Halley [Isaac Newton, John Flamsteed, David Gregory]; Oxford's Newtonian school [James Bradley, John Whiteside, John Keill]; Georgian Oxford [James Stirling, Nathaniel Bliss, Stephen Rigaud, William Gladstone]; Thomas Hornsby and the Radcliffe Observatory [John Radcliffe, John Bird, James Bradley]; The Mid-Nineteenth Century [Baden Powell, Henry Smith, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Jowett, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, Charles Dodgson, Bartholomew Price]; Henry Smith [Frederick Temple, Charles Hermite, Hermann Minkowski]; James Joseph Sylvester [Arthur Cayley, Augustus de Morgan, David Hilbert, Felix Klein]; The Twentieth Century [William Esson, G.H. Hardy, E.C. Titchmarsh, Henry Whitehead, Charles Coulston]; Some Personal Reminiscences; Appendix's Mathematical Chair; References

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2000
Co-Autor Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson
Zusatzinfo illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
ISBN-10 0-19-852309-2 / 0198523092
ISBN-13 978-0-19-852309-3 / 9780198523093
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
a secret world of intuition and curiosity

von David Bessis

Buch | Hardcover (2024)
Yale University Press (Verlag)
CHF 45,80
a global history of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers

von Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell

Buch | Softcover (2024)
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
CHF 22,65