Remarks on the Cambridge Mathematical Studies, and Their Relation to Modern Physical Science
Author : James Challis
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Mathematics
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Author : James Challis
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Mathematics
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Author : Stephen Case
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1009237691
It has been said that being scientific in Victorian England meant to be as much like John Herschel as possible. This volume shows readers what it meant to be John Herschel (1792-1871), one of England's most prominent polymaths. Drawing on his published oeuvre and recent scholarship, as well as an immense amount of surviving archival material and correspondence, these essays present the first ever comprehensive account of Herschel's life, work, and legacy. From mathematics and astronomy, to philosophy and politics, the volume sheds new light on his crucial role in the history of Victorian science and explores a wide array of issues in the history of nineteenth-century culture, philosophy, mathematics, and beyond.
Author : Marc Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0190269480
Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. In addition, mathematicians regard some proofs as explaining why the theorems being proved do in fact hold. This book proposes new philosophical accounts of many kinds of non-causal explanations in science and mathematics.
Author : George Ripley
Publisher :
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521572010
A comprehensive and authoritative guide to developments in life and earth sciences since 1800.
Author : Henry Latham
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Examinations
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Author : Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 1989-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226078868
"No one interested in the history of optics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physics, or the general phenomenon of theory change in science can afford to ignore Jed Buchwald's well-structured, highly detailed, and scrupulously researched book. . . . Buchwald's analysis will surely constitute the essential starting point for further work on this important and hitherto relatively neglected episode of theory change."—John Worrall, Isis
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Author : Henry Latham (Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.)
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Elizabeth Garber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461217660
This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the "language" of physics, the connections between these independent disciplines have been far more complex and intimate than previous narratives have shown. The author convincingly demonstrates that practices, methods, and language shaped the development of the field, and are a key to understanding the mergence of the modern academic discipline. Mathematicians and physicists, as well as historians of both disciplines, will find this provocative work of great interest.