Book ID: CBB000320401

Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection (2000)

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Houston, Ken (Editor)


University College Press


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: x + 150 pp.; ports.; bib.; index
Language: English

Description Includes biographies of Thomas Harriot, William Rowan Hamilton, Robert Murphy, George Boole, George Gabriel Stokes, George Salmon, John Casey, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Henry John Stephen Smith, Osborne Reynolds, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, George Francis Fitzgerald, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, William Sealy Gosset, Walter Heitler, David Robert Bates, Andrew Young, Patrick Brendan Kennedy.


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Authors & Contributors
Wilson, David Ball
Nakane, Michiyo
Fraser, Craig G.
Anne van Weerden
Cohen, Yvonne
Wood, Alastair
Concepts
Mathematics
Biographies
Physics
Mathematicians
Natural philosophy
Science and religion
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
Places
Ireland
Great Britain
Dublin (Ireland)
England
British Isles
Institutions
Trinity College Dublin
Statistical Society of London
Royal Statistical Society
Royal Society of London
Cambridge University
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