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" Masters of theory : "
Andrew Warwick
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BL
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581771
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GBA3X6147b410990
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| Main Entry
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Warwick, Andrew
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| Title & Author
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Masters of theory : : Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics /\ Andrew Warwick
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xiv, 572 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0226873749
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: 9780226873749
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: 0226873757
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: 9780226873756
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-547) and index
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| Contents
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Writing a pedagogical history of mathematical physics -- The reform coach: teaching mixed mathematics in Georgian and Victorian Cambridge -- A mathematical world on paper: the material culture and practice-ladenness of mixed mathematics -- Exercising the student body: mathematics, manliness, and athleticism -- Routh's men: coaching, research, and the reform of public teaching -- Making sense of Maxwell's Treatise on electricity and magnetism in mid-Victorian Cambridge -- Joseph Larmor, the electronic theory of matter, and the principle of relativity -- Transforming the field: the Cambridge reception of Einstein's special theory of relativity -- Through the convex looking glass: A.S. Eddington and the Cambridge reception of Einstein's general theory of relativity -- Training, continuity, and change
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University of Cambridge-- History-- 19th century
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Mathematical physics-- History-- 19th century
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| Dewey Classification
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530.15/09426/59/09034
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QC19.6.W37 2003
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