Oxford figures : 800 years of the mathematical science /
"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 book reveals the rich...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000
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Table of Contents:
- 1 800 years of mathematical traditions / John Fauvel
- 2. Medieval Oxford / John North
- 3. Renaissance Oxford / John Fauvel and Robert Goulding
- 4. Mathematical instruments / Willem Hackmann
- 5. mid-seventeenth century / Allan Chapman
- 6. John Wallis / Raymond Flood and John Fauvel
- 7. Edmond Halley / Allan Chapman
- 8. Oxford's Newtonian school / Allan Chapman
- 9. Georgian Oxford / John Fauvel
- 10. Thomas Hornsby and the Radcliffe Observatory / Allan Chapman
- 11. mid-nineteenth century / Keith Hannabuss
- 12. Henry Smith / Keith Hannabuss
- 13. James Joseph Sylvester / John Fauvel
- 14. twentieth century / Margaret E. Rayner
- 15. Some personal reminiscences / Michael Atiyah
- App. Oxford's mathematical Chairs.