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Symbols and things : material mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Kevin Lambert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lambert, Kevin, 1992- author.
- Series:
- Science and culture in the nineteenth century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Equipment and supplies--History--18th century.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--Equipment and supplies--History--19th century.
- Communication in mathematics--History--18th century.
- Communication in mathematics.
- Communication in mathematics--History--19th century.
- History.
- Equipment and supplies.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I DISTRIBUTING
- ch. 1 Textbook in the Marketplace
- ch. 2 Fences, Diaries, and Mathematical Journals
- pt. II ASSEMBLING
- ch. 3 Cambridge Museological Science and the Making of English Algebra
- ch. 4 The Mathematician's Library: George Green, George Boole, and Augustus De Morgan
- pt. III PRACTICING
- ch. 5 Romantic Space and Imaginary Numbers: Imagining Space through Diagrams
- ch. 6 William Thomson's Notebooks
- ch. 7 Kites and Letters: The Peter Guthrie Tait and William Rowan Hamilton Correspondence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0822946831
- 9780822946830
- OCLC:
- 1225191288
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