Masters of theory Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics /

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Huvudskapare: Warwick, Andrew
Institutionell skapare: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 1. Writing a pedagogical history of mathematical physics
  • 2. The reform coach
  • 3. A mathematical world on paper
  • 4. Exercising the student body
  • 5. Routh's men
  • 6. Making sense of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in mid-Victorian Cambridge
  • 7. Joseph Larmor, the electronic theory of matter, and the principle of relativity
  • 8. Transforming the field
  • 9. Through the convex looking glass
  • Epilogue : training, continuity, and change.