Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical SciencesJohn Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Robin J. Wilson Oxford University Press, 2000 - 296 pàgines This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For 800 years mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This highly readable and beautifully illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters who helped to shape it. The story begins with the founding of the university of Oxford and the establishing of the medieval curriculum, in which mathematics had an important role. The Black Death, the advent of printing, the founding of the university of Cambridge, and the Newtonian revolution all had a great influence on the later development of mathematics at Oxford. So too did many well-known figures: Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Benjamin Jowett, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, G. H. Hardy, to name but a few. Later chapters bring us to the twentieth century, and the book ends with some entertaining reminiscences by Sir Michael Atiyah of the thirty years he spent as an Oxford mathematician. |
Continguts
Medieval Oxford | 29 |
Renaissance Oxford | 41 |
Mathematical instruments | 63 |
The midseventeenth century | 77 |
John Wallis | 97 |
Edmond Halley | 117 |
Oxfords Newtonian school | 137 |
Georgian Oxford | 151 |
The midnineteenth century | 187 |
Henry Smith | 203 |
James Joseph Sylvester | 219 |
The twentieth century | 241 |
Some personal reminiscences | 257 |
Notes on contributors | 270 |
Acknowledgements | 289 |
Thomas Hornsby and the Radcliffe Observatory | 169 |
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algebra appointed Astronomer Royal astronomy Baden Powell Bradley's Cambridge Cayley Chair of Astronomy Chair of Geometry CHAPTER Charles Christ Church Christopher Wren Clarendon Press classical David Gregory death Dodgson early edited Edmond Halley elected ematics English Euclid examination Fellow Flamsteed G. H. Hardy graduate Greenwich Halley's Henry Savile Henry Smith History of Science Hornsby's interest J. J. Sylvester James Bradley James Joseph Sylvester John Wallis Jowett Keill later letter London manuscripts math Mathematical Institute mathematical sciences Mathematical Society meridian Merton College Museum Natural Philosophy Newton Newtonian observations Oxford mathematics Oxford University Press papers physical Professor of Astronomy Professor of Geometry published quadrant Radcliffe Observatory Radcliffe Trust Richard of Wallingford Rigaud Royal Society Savile's Savilian Chair Savilian Professor scholar School scientific Sedleian seventeenth century stars statistics Sylvester's teaching telescope theory Thomas Hornsby tradition tutor undergraduate University of Oxford Wallis's Wilkins William wrote
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