Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences
2002; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 109; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2695375
ISSN1930-0972
AutoresJudith V. Grabiner, John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Robin Wilson,
Tópico(s)Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
Resumo800 years of Oxford mathematics [Alfred the Great, Roger Bacon, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Florence Nightingale, G. H. Hardy, Roger Penrose] Medieval Oxford [Richard of Wallingford, Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Bradwardine] Renaissance Oxford [Henry Savile, Thoms Harriot, Henry Briggs] Mathematical Instruments [Robert Boyle, Edmund Hunter, Robert Hooke] The Mid-Seventeenth Century [Christopher Wren, John Locke, Robert Hooke] John Wallis [Seth Ward, Thoms Hobbes, Robert Wood] Edmond Halley [Isaac Newton, John Flamsteed, David Gregory] Oxford's Newtonian school [James Bradley, John Whiteside, John Keill] Georgian Oxford [James Stirling, Nathaniel Bliss, Stephen Rigaud, William Gladstone] Thomas Hornsby and the Radcliffe Observatory [John Radcliffe, John Bird, James Bradley] The Mid-Nineteenth Century [Baden Powell, Henry Smith, Charles Darwin, Benjamin Jowett, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, Charles Dodgson, Bartholomew Price] Henry Smith [Frederick Temple, Charles Hermite, Hermann Minkowski] James Joseph Sylvester [Arthur Cayley, Augustus de Morgan, David Hilbert, Felix Klein] The Twentieth Century [William Esson, G.H. Hardy, E.C. Titchmarsh, Henry Whitehead, Charles Coulston] Some Personal Reminiscences Appendix's Mathematical Chair References
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