Article ID: CBB414838849

Augustus De Morgan's anonymous reviews for The Athenæum: A mirror of a Victorian mathematician (2016)

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The weekly London-based literary magazine, The Athenæum, supplied Victorian Britain with news of the latest developments in the arts, science, and politics. Book reviews represented a regular department of the periodical. While these reviews were usually anonymous, The Athenæum's editors identified the reviewers in their private marked copies of the journal, now held by City University, London. These marked copies reveal that Augustus De Morgan produced around 1000 reviews for the journal from 1840 to 1869. As a reviewer, De Morgan covered books on a wide variety of topics both within and outside mathematics. A consideration of a selection of the mathematical works De Morgan chose to review gives an insight into how he believed issues surrounding mathematics and its study should be presented to the wide and non-specialist audience of The Athenæum, and thus to the lay reader of mid-Victorian Britain.

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Authors & Contributors
Richards, Joan L.
Rice, Adrian
Ursula Martin
Donal Murphy
Zabell, Sandy L.
Withers, Charles W. J.
Concepts
Mathematics
Logic
Science and religion
Biographies
Controversies and disputes
Science education and teaching
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
France
Germany
Institutions
London Mathematical Society
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Oxford University
Cambridge University
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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