Masters of Theory

The University of Chicago Press

Contents

List of Illustrations.........................................................................................................................viiPreface and Acknowledgments...................................................................................................................ixNote on Conventions and Sources...............................................................................................................xiii1 Writing a Pedagogical History of Mathematical Physics.......................................................................................12 The Reform Coach Teaching Mixed Mathematics in Georgian and Victorian Cambridge.............................................................493 A Mathematical World on Paper The Material Culture and Practice-Ladenness of Mixed Mathematics..............................................1144 Exercising the Student Body Mathematics, Manliness, and Athleticism.........................................................................1765 Routh's Men Coaching, Research, and the Reform of Public Teaching...........................................................................2276 Making Sense of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in Mid-Victorian Cambridge..................................................2867 Joseph Larmor, the Electronic Theory of Matter, and the Principle of Relativity.............................................................3578 Transforming the Field The Cambridge Reception of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity...................................................3999 Through the Convex Looking Glass A. S. Eddington and the Cambridge Reception of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.....................443Epilogue: Training, Continuity, and Change....................................................................................................501Appendix A: Coaching Success, 1865-1909.......................................................................................................512Appendix B: Coaching Lineage, 1865-1909.......................................................................................................524Bibliography..................................................................................................................................527Index.........................................................................................................................................549

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