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Symbols and things : material mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Kevin Lambert.

Van Pelt Library QA24 .L36 2021
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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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