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| Autore principale: | Warwick, Andrew.
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| Titolo: | Masters of theory : Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics / Andrew Warwick. |
| Pubblicazione: | Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2003. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XIV, 572 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of illustrations. Preface and acknowledgments. Note on conventions and sources. 1. Writing a pedagogical history of mathematical physics 2. The reform coach: teaching mixed mathematics in Georgian and Victorian Cambridge 3. A mathematical world on paper: the material culture and practice ladenness of mixed mathematics 4. Exercising the student body: mathematics, manliness and athleticism 5. Routh's men: coaching, research and the reform of public teaching 6. Making sense of Maxwell's Treatise on electricity and magnetism in mid-Victorian Cambridge 7. Joseph Larmor, the electronic theory of matter and the principle of relativity 8. Transforming the field: the Cambridge reception of Einstein's special theory of relativity 9. Through the convex looking glass: A.S. Eddington and the Cambridge reception of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Epilogue: Training, continuity and change. Appendix A: Coaching success (1865-1909). Appendix B: Coaching lineage (1865-1909). Bibliography. Index |
| ISBN: | 0226873749 |
| Discipline: | Fisica matematica--Scuole e università. |
| Enti: | University (Cambridge). |
| Luoghi: | Cambridge. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. Secolo XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 13421 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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