Masters of theory : Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics
When Isaac Newton published the 'Principia' three centuries ago, only a few scholars were capable of understanding his conceptually demanding work. Yet this esoteric knowledge quickly became accessible in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when Britain produced many leading mathematical physicists. In this book, Andrew Warwick shows how the education of these 'masters of theory' led them to transform our understanding of everything from the flight of a boomerang to the structure of the universe
History
1 online resource (xiv, 572 pages) : illustrations
9780226873763, 9780226873749, 9781283150842, 0226873765, 0226873749, 1283150840
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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