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.
Wilson, David Ball
Wilkes, M. V.
Verburgt, Lukas M.
Turvey, Peter J.
Snyder, Laura J.
Concepts
Algebra
Science
Mathematics
Personality of the scientist
Mathematical analysis
Creativity; genius
Time Periods
19th century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
Institutions
Cambridge University
Analytical Society
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