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Eight Centuries of the Mathematical Sciences
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 September 2013
- ISBN 9780199681976
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages418 pages
- Size 249x195x28 mm
- Weight 1106 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 200 b/w line drawings, 80 b/w halftones 0
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Short description:
Revealing the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters that have helped to shape it for over 800 years, this second edition brings the story right up to the opening of the new Oxford Mathematical Institute in 2013, with a foreword from Marcus du Sautoy and recent developments from Peter M. Neumann.
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This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For eight centuries mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This highly readable and beautifully illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters that helped to shape it.
The story begins with the founding of the University of Oxford and the establishing of the medieval curriculum, in which mathematics had an important role. The Black Death, the advent of printing, the Civil War, and the Newtonian revolution all had a great influence on the development of mathematics at Oxford. So too did many well-known figures: Roger Bacon, Henry Savile, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), and G. H. Hardy, to name but a few. Later chapters bring us to the 20th century, with some entertaining reminiscences by Sir Michael Atiyah of the thirty years he spent as an Oxford mathematician.
In this second edition the story is brought right up to the opening of the new Mathematical Institute in 2013 with a foreword from Marcus du Sautoy and recent developments from Peter M. Neumann.
As you would expect from the editors and publishers, this is a splendid book with excellent illustrations and a text which bubbles with fascinating anecdotes and a real sense of the richness of Oxfordâs mathematical tradition.
Table of Contents:
Foreword to Second Edition
Foreword to First Edition
Introduction: Eight centuries of mathematical traditions
PART I: EARLY DAYS
Medieval Oxford
Renaissance Oxford
Mathematical instruments
PART II: THE 17th CENTURY
The first professors
John Wallis
Edmond Halley
PART III: THE 18th CENTURY
Oxford's Newtonian school
Georgian Oxford
Thomas Hornsby and the Radcliffe Observatory
PART IV: THE VICTORIAN ERA
The 19th century
Henry Smith
Charles Dodgson
James Joseph Sylvester
PART V: THE MODERN ERA
The 20th century
Some personal reminiscences
Epilogue: Recent developments
