Wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century /
edited by P.M. Harman.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1985.
- viii, 261 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.
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.
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907. Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.