Masters of theory [electronic resource] : Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics / Andrew Warwick.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.Description: xiv, 572 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 530.15/09426/59/09034 21
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  • QC19.6 .W37 2003eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-547) and index.

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.

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