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049 $aCOPA
100 1 $aWarwick, Andrew.
245 10 $aMasters of theory :$bCambridge and the rise of
mathematical physics /$cAndrew Warwick.
260 $aChicago :$bThe University of Chicago
Press,$cc2003.
300 $axiv, 572 p. :$bill., ports. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 527-547)
and index.
505 2 $aWriting 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.
590 $aU188005495933 cvr
650 0 $aMathematical physics$xHistory$y19th century.
610 20 $aUniversity of Cambridge$xHistory$y19th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/
fy037/2002153732.html
994 $aX0$bCOP
