Masters of theory
Masters of theory: Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics Andrew Warwick
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2003.
ISBN: 0226873749
DDC: 530.15094265909
LCC: QC19.6
Edition: (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-547) and index.
Writing a pedagogical history of mathematical physics -- The reform
coach: teaching mixed mathematics in Georgian and Victorian Cambridge
-- A mathematical world on paper: the material culture and
practice-ladenness of mixed mathematics -- Exercising the student
body mathematics, manliness, and athleticism -- Routh's Men:
coaching, research, and the reform of public teaching -- Making sense
of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in Mid-Victorian
Cambridge -- Joseph Larmor, the electronic theory of matter, and the
principle of relativity -- Transforming the field: the Cambridge
reception of Einstein's special theory of relativity -- Through the
convex looking glass: A. S. Eddington and the Cambridge reception of
Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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