Book ID: CBB884699301

Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2021)

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Lambert, Kevin Thomas (Author)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 352
Language: English

In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the print industries of the book, disciplinary journal, magazine, and newspaper. Though not always physically present with one another, the characters central to this book—from George Green to William Rowan Hamilton—relied heavily on communication technologies as they developed their theories in consort with colleagues. The letters they exchanged, together with the equations, diagrams, tables, or pictures that filled their manuscripts and publications, were all tangible traces of abstract ideas that extended mathematicians into their social and material environment. Each chapter of this book explores a thing, or assembling of things, mathematicians needed to do their work—whether a textbook, museum, journal, library, diagram, notebook, or letter—all characteristic of the mid-nineteenth-century British taskscape, but also representative of great change to a discipline brought about by an industrialized world in motion.

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Authors & Contributors
King, Rachael Scarborough
Gantet, Claire
Bertil F. Dorch
Fagnani, Martino Lorenzo
Ole Ellegaard
Jarvis, C. E.
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Correspondence and corresponding
Communication within scientific contexts
Professions and professionalization
Scholarly publishing
Scientific literature
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
Early modern
16th century
Places
Italy
Great Britain
England
Zurich (Switzerland)
Scotland
Netherlands
Institutions
University of Southern Denmark
University of Copenhagen
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Royal Society of London
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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