Masters of theory [electronic resource] : Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics / Andrew Warwick.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 572 p.) : illISBN:- 9780226873763 (electronic bk.)
- 0226873765 (electronic bk.)
- Mathematical physics -- History -- 19th century
- University of Cambridge -- History -- 19th century
- SCIENCE -- Physics -- Mathematical & Computational
- Mathematische fysica
- University of Cambridge
- Física matemática (história) -- Século 19
- Cambridge -- Universität
- Mathematische Physik
- Geschichte 1760-1930
- Geschichte 1865-1909
- 530.15/09426/59/09034 22
- QC19.6 .W37 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-547) and index.
Writing 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 -- Training, continuity, and change.
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