Mathematics in Victorian Britain - Hardcover

Foreword By Dr Adam Hart-Davis Writer Photographer And Broadcaster

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199601399 ISBN 13: 9780199601394

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2011

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The first general survey of the mathematics of the Victorian period.

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Raymond Flood is Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford where, prior to this, he was Vice President. He has worked as a university lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University and was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.



Adrian Rice is Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, where his research focuses on 19th-century and early 20th-century British mathematics. He is a two-time recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's Tevor Evans Award for outstanding expository writing.


Robin Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, formerly Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, a former fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and president-elect of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He is involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history, and in 2005 was awarded a Pólya prize by the Mathematical Association of America for outstanding expository writing. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the European Mathematical Society's Newsletter and Chair of the Committee on Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics.

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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199601399
• ISBN 13: 9780199601394
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 478
• Herausgeber: Flood Raymond, Rice Adrian, Wilson Robin
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