Symbols and Things - Kevin Lambert

Symbols and Things

Mathematics in the Age of Steam

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
330 Seiten
2021
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-4683-0 (ISBN)
49,25 inkl. MwSt
An exploration of things and equipment used by eighteenth- and ninteenth-century mathematicians.
In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians came to depend on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the print industries of the book, disciplinary journal, magazine, and newspaper. Although not always physically present with one another, the characters central to this book—from George Green to William Rowan Hamilton—relied heavily on communication technologies as they developed their theories in consort with colleagues. The letters they exchanged, together with the equations, diagrams, tables, or pictures that filled their manuscripts and publications, were all tangible traces of abstract ideas that extended mathematicians into their social and material environment. Each chapter of this book explores a thing, or assembling of things, needed by mathematicians to do their work—whether a textbook, museum, journal, library, diagram, notebook, or letter—all characteristic of the mid-nineteenth-century British taskscape, but also representative of great change to a discipline brought about by an industrialized world in motion.
Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Verlagsort Pittsburgh PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-8229-4683-1 / 0822946831
ISBN-13 978-0-8229-4683-0 / 9780822946830
Zustand Neuware
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