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Oxford figures : 800 years of the mathematical sciences
- Title
- Oxford figures : 800 years of the mathematical sciences / edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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- Description
- 296 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-288) and index.
- Contents
- 800 years of mathematical traditions / John Fauvel -- Medieval Oxford / John North -- Renaissance Oxford / John Fauvel and Robert Goulding -- Mathematical instruments / Willem Hackmann -- The mid-seventeenth century / Allan Chapman -- John Wallis / Raymond Flood and John Flauvel -- Edmond Halley / Allan Chapman -- Oxford's Newtonian school / Allan Chapman -- Georgian Oxford / John Fauvel -- Thomas Hornsby and the Radcliffe Observatory / Allan Chapman -- The mid-nineteenth century / Keith Hannabuss -- Henry Smith / Keith Hannabuss -- James Joseph Sylvester / John Flauvel -- The twentieth century / Margaret E. Rayner -- Some personal reminiscences / Sir Michael Atiyah.
- Call Number
- QA14.G73
- ISBN
- 0198523092
- LCCN
- 99027797
- OCLC
- 52401188
- SCSB-1123212
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library