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The correspondence of Charles Hutton, (1737-1823) : mathematical network in Georgian Britain / editor, Benjamin Wardhaugh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.
- Hutton, Charles.
- Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Mathematicians--Great Britain--Correspondence.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work contains all the letters that are known to survive from the correspondence of Charles Hutton (1737-1823). Hutton was one of the most prominent British mathematicians of his generation; he played roles at the Royal Society, the Royal Military Academy, the Board of Longitude, the 'philomath' network and elsewhere. He worked on the explosive force of gunpowder and the mean density of the earth, wining the Royal Society's Copley medal in 1778; he was also at the focus of a celebrated row at the Royal Society in 1784 over the place of mathematics there.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 26, 2018).
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-252723-1
- 0-19-184315-6
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