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Mr Hopkins' Men - Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century (Paperback, 2007 ed.)
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Mr Hopkins' Men - Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century (Paperback, 2007 ed.)
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A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge,
I came across a remarkable but then little-known album of pencil
and watercolour portraits. The artist of most (perhaps all) was
Thomas Charles Wageman. Created during 1829-1852, these portraits
are of pupils of the famous mat- matical tutor William Hopkins.
Though I knew much about several of the subjects, the names of
others were then unknown to me. I was prompted to discover more
about them all, and gradually this interest evolved into the
present book. The project has expanded naturally to describe the
Cambridge educational milieu of the time, the work of William
Hopkins, and the later achievements of his pupils and their
contemporaries. As I have taught applied mathematics in a British
university for forty years, during a time of rapid change, the
struggles to implement and to resist reform in
mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge struck a chord of recognition. So,
too, did debates about academic standards of honours degrees. And
my own experiences, as a graduate of a Scottish university who
proceeded to C- bridge for postgraduate work, gave me a particular
interest in those Scots and Irish students who did much the same
more than a hundred years earlier. As a mathematician, I sometimes
felt frustrated at having to suppress virtually all of the ? ne
mathematics associated with this period: but to have included such
technical material would have made this a very different book.
General
Imprint: |
Springer London
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2008 |
First published: |
2007 |
Authors: |
A. D. D. Craik
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
410 |
Edition: |
2007 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84800-132-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Mathematics >
History of mathematics
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LSN: |
1-84800-132-0 |
Barcode: |
9781848001329 |
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