To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the geometry chair, a meeting was held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the talks presented at this meeting have formed the basis for this fully edited and lavishly illustrated book, which outlines the first 400 years of Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry.
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the geometry chair, a meeting was held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the talks presented at this meeting have formed the basis for this fully edited and lavishly illustrated book, which outlines the first 400 years of Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Robin Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, and of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and is a former Fellow of Keble College, Univerity of Oxford, UK. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited around fifty books on mathematics and its history, including fifteen books for Oxford University Press. Involved with the popularization and communication of these subjects, he has received international awards for his 'outstanding expository writing' and for his outreach activities.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword List of the Savilian Professors of Geometry 1: William Poole: Sir Henry Savile and the Early Professors 2: Phillip Beeley and Benjamin Wardhaugh: John Wallis 3: Christopher Hollings and Allan Chapman: A Century of Astronomers: From Halley to Rigaud 4: Keith Hannabuss: Baden Powell and Henry Smith 5: Karen Hunger Parshall: James Joseph Sylvester 6: Robin Wilson: G. H. Hardy and E. C. Titchmarsh 7: Frances Kirwan: From Michael Atiyah to the 21st Century 8: Mark McCartney: Interview with Nigel Hitchin Further Reading, Notes, and References
Foreword List of the Savilian Professors of Geometry 1: William Poole: Sir Henry Savile and the Early Professors 2: Phillip Beeley and Benjamin Wardhaugh: John Wallis 3: Christopher Hollings and Allan Chapman: A Century of Astronomers: From Halley to Rigaud 4: Keith Hannabuss: Baden Powell and Henry Smith 5: Karen Hunger Parshall: James Joseph Sylvester 6: Robin Wilson: G. H. Hardy and E. C. Titchmarsh 7: Frances Kirwan: From Michael Atiyah to the 21st Century 8: Mark McCartney: Interview with Nigel Hitchin Further Reading, Notes, and References
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