Article ID: CBB000068243

Radicals, Whigs and conservatives: The middle and lower classes in the analytical revolution at Cambridge in the age of aristocracy (1995)

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Description On the Analytical Society and its leaders--Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and George Peacock. “This essay is an appraisal of their activities within the mathematical/social/political/religious environment of Cambridge. The purpose is to reveal why the curriculum took the form it did, a form conducive to the education of a liberally educated élite and mathematical physicists, but not necessarily to the education of pure mathematicians.”


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Authors & Contributors
Ashworth, William J.
Wilkes, M. V.
Verburgt, Lukas M.
Turvey, Peter J.
Snyder, Laura J.
Schaffer, Simon
Journals
Historia Mathematica
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Sciences et Techniques en Perspective
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Notre Dame
State University of New York Press
Broadway Books
Concepts
Algebra
Science
Mathematics
Personality of the scientist
Mathematical analysis
Creativity; genius
People
Herschel, John Frederick William
Peacock, George
Babbage, Charles
Whewell, William
Walton, William (1784-1857)
Jones, Richard
Time Periods
19th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Cambridge University
Analytical Society
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