Title Symbols and things material mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Kevin Lambert

Published Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Science and culture in the nineteenth century Science and culture in the nineteenth century. Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Mathematical Work -- Part I. Distributing -- Chapter 1. Textbook in the Marketplace -- Chapter 2. Fences, Diaries, and Mathematical Journals -- Part II. Assembling -- Chapter 3. Cambridge Museological Science and the Making of English Algebra -- Chapter 4. The Mathematician's Library: George Green, George Boole, and Augustus De Morgan -- Part III. Practicing -- Chapter 5. Romantic Space and Imaginary Numbers: Imagining Space through Diagrams -- Chapter 6. William Thomson's Notebooks Chapter 7. Kites and Letters: The Peter Guthrie Tait and William Rowan Hamilton Correspondence -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Subject Mathematics -- Equipment and supplies -- History -- 18th century Mathematics -- Equipment and supplies -- History -- 19th century Communication in mathematics -- History -- 18th century Communication in mathematics -- History -- 19th century Communication in mathematics Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822988410 0822988410

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