This social history of mathematics and physics tells the story of Cambridge University's mathematical physicists. The University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the world's most celebrated academic positions. Since its foundation in 1663, the chair has been held by seventeen men who represent some of the most influential minds in science and technology. This informative work offers new perspectives on such world-famous scientists as Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking.
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"The editors of this excellent book have culled contributions from 13 historians of science and put together a fascinating tale of the deeds, inventions, and ideas of the brilliant individuals who occupied the Lucasian Chair. Highly recommended." Choice
"... solid and engaging ... It is a story to comfort any number of vice-chancellors, provosts, deans and department heads." Nature
"...once I started reading this book I couldn't put it down...a book worth owning, and you'll find things in it that you're glad to know." -Mathematical Association of America Reviews, Gerlad B. Folland, University of Washington
"... solid and engaging ... It is a story to comfort any number of vice-chancellors, provosts, deans and department heads." Nature
"...once I started reading this book I couldn't put it down...a book worth owning, and you'll find things in it that you're glad to know." -Mathematical Association of America Reviews, Gerlad B. Folland, University of Washington
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Cambridge University's Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is one of the world's most celebrated academic positions. Since its foundation in 1663, the chair has been held by seventeen men who represent some of the most influential minds in science and technology. Principally a social history of mathematics and physics, the story of these great natural philosophers and mathematical physicists is told here by some of the finest historians of science. This informative work offers new perspectives on world famous scientists including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking.
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The status today accorded the Lucasian professorship tends to obscure Cambridge's more dubious honour as the last of the medieval and Renaissance universities to secure a endowed professorship in the mathematical sciences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Cambridge University, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Trinity College, Philosophical Transactions, Charles Babbage, William Whiston, Isaac Milner, King's College, Mathematical Tripos, John Colson, Joseph Larmor, New York, Newton's Principia, British Association, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Paul Dirac, Edward Waring, Isaac Barrow, Board of Longitude, William Whewell, Analytical Society, Astronomer Royal, Big Bang New!
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The status today accorded the Lucasian professorship tends to obscure Cambridge's more dubious honour as the last of the medieval and Renaissance universities to secure a endowed professorship in the mathematical sciences. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Cambridge University, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Trinity College, Philosophical Transactions, Charles Babbage, William Whiston, Isaac Milner, King's College, Mathematical Tripos, John Colson, Joseph Larmor, New York, Newton's Principia, British Association, Cambridge Philosophical Society, Paul Dirac, Edward Waring, Isaac Barrow, Board of Longitude, William Whewell, Analytical Society, Astronomer Royal, Big Bang New!
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- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking on 8 pages
- Stephen Hawking A Life in Science by Michael White on 6 pages
- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by P. A. M. Dirac on 6 pages
- Geometrical Lectures by Isaac Barrow on 4 pages
- Sacred Theory of the Earth (Centaur Classics Ser) by T. Burnet on 4 pages
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