Richard Mason (ed.)

Cambridge Minds

Herausgeber: Mason, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction, written by leading authorities, to many of the major modern achievements of Cambridge University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521456258
• ISBN-10: 0521456258
• Artikelnr.: 22257564

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Notes on contributors
1. The effects of a broken home: Bertrand Russell and Cambridge Ray Monk
2. I. A. Richards, F. R. Leavis and Cambridge English Stephen Heath
3. Emily Davies, the Sidgwicks and the education of women in Cambridge Gillian Sutherland
4. Radioastronomy in Cambridge Antony Hewish
5. Three Cambridge prehistorians Colin Renfrew
6. John Maynard Keynes Geoffrey Harcourt
7. Mathematics in Cambridge and beyond Jeremy Gray
8. James Stuart: engineering, philanthropy and radical politics Paul McHugh
9. The Darwins in Cambridge Richard Keynes
10. How the Burgess Shale came to Cambridge
and what happened Simon Conway Morris
11. Ludwig Wittgenstein P. M. S. Hacker
12. 'Brains in their fingertips': physics at the Cavendish Laboratory 1880-1940 Jeffrey Hughes
13. J. N. Figgis and the history of political thought in Cambridge Mark Goldie
14. Molecular biology in Cambridge M. F. Perutz
15. James Frazer and Cambridge anthropology Ernest Gellner
16. Michael Oakeshott Robert Grant.