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Masters of theory :

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Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics /

Andrew Warwick

xiv, 572 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-547) and index

Writing a pedagogical history of mathematical physics -- The reform coach: teaching mixed mathematics in Georgian and Victorian Cambridge -- A mathematical world on paper: the material culture and practice-ladenness of mixed mathematics -- Exercising the student body: mathematics, manliness, and athleticism -- Routh's men: coaching, research, and the reform of public teaching -- Making sense of Maxwell's Treatise on electricity and magnetism in mid-Victorian Cambridge -- Joseph Larmor, the electronic theory of matter, and the principle of relativity -- Transforming the field: the Cambridge reception of Einstein's special theory of relativity -- Through the convex looking glass: A.S. Eddington and the Cambridge reception of Einstein's general theory of relativity -- Training, continuity, and change

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University of Cambridge-- History-- 19th century

Mathematical physics-- History-- 19th century

Warwick, Andrew

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