Article ID: CBB000080051

“A corrective to the spirit of too exclusively pure mathematics”: Robert Smith (1689-1768) and his prizes at Cambridge University (1999)

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Description Includes a list of Smith Prize winners from 1768 to 1940.


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Authors & Contributors
Bektas, M. Yakup
Crosland, Maurice P.
Daniel, Glyn
Dijksterhuis, Fokko Jan
Ellis, George F. R.
Gascoigne, John
Journals
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences
History of Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
European Physical Journal H
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Boydell Press
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Scottish Committee on Acounting History
Concepts
Mercantile mathematics; industrial mathematics
Science
Prizes; awards
Relativity, general
Acoustics
Optics
People
Smith, Robert
Newton, Isaac
Clark, Grahame
De Morgan, Augustus
Descartes, René
Hawking, Stephen W.
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century
Renaissance
Places
British Isles
England
Netherlands
Institutions
Cambridge University
Oxford University
Royal Society of London
International Biological Program
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