Wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century / edited by P.M. Harman.
Contributor(s): Harman, P. M. (Peter Michael)
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 530.0942659 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00056809 |
Cover title: wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge mathematical physics in the nineteenth century.
Essays based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cambridge.
Bibliography: (pages 242-256) and index.
Introduction / P. M. Harman -- The educational matrix / David B. Wilson -- Geologists and mathematicians / Crosbie Smith -- Mathematics and mathematical physics from Cambridge, 1815-40 / I. Grattan-Guinness -- Integral theorems in Cambridge mathematical physics, 1830-55 / J.J. Cross -- Mathematics and physical reality in William Thomson's electromagnetic theory / Ole Knudsen -- Mechanical image and reality in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory / Daniel M. Siegel -- Edinburgh philosophy and Cambridge physics / P.M. Harman -- Modifying the continuum / Jed Z. Buchwald.