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Such Silver Currents RP - The Story of William and Lucy Clifford, 1845-1929 (Paperback)
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Such Silver Currents RP - The Story of William and Lucy Clifford, 1845-1929 (Paperback)
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Such Silver Currents is the first biography of a mathematical
genius and his literary wife, their wide circle of well-known
intellectual and artistic friends, and through them of the age in
which they lived. William Clifford is now recognised not only for
his innovative and lasting mathematics, but also for his
philosophy, which embraced the fundamentals of scientific thought,
the nature of the physical universe, Darwinian theory, the nature
of consciousness, personal morality and law, and the whole mystery
of being. Clifford algebra is seen as the basis for Dirac's theory
of the electron, fundamental to modern physics, and Clifford also
anticipated Einstein's idea that space is curved. The book includes
a personal reflection on William Clifford's mathematics by the
Nobel Prize winner Sir Roger Penrose O.M. The year after his
election to the Royal Society, Clifford married Lucy Lane, the
journalist and novelist. During their four years of marriage they
held Sunday salons attended by many well-known scientific, literary
and artistic personalities. Following William's early death, Lucy
became a close friend and confidante of Henry James. Her wide
circle of friends included Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George
Eliot, Leslie Stephen, Thomas Huxley, Sir Frederick Macmillan and
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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