Screen LibraryFrom Newton to Hawking：a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian professors of mathematics
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, U.K. New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xxiv, 486 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0521663105 |
| Index Number: | K835 |
| CLC: | K835.616.11 |
| Call Number: | K835.616.11/F931 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. 'Mind almost divine' -- Isaac Barrow and the foundation of the Lucasian professorship -- 'Very accomplished mathematician, philosopher, chemist' : Newton as Lucasian professor -- Making Newton easy : William Whiston in Cambridge and London -- Sensible Newtonians : Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson -- The negative side of nothing : Edward Waring, Isaac Milner and Newtonian values -- Paper and brass : the Lucasian professorship, 1820-39 -- Arbiters of Victorian science : George Gabriel Stokes and Joshua King -- 'That universal æthereal plenum' : Joseph Larmor's natural history of physics -- Paul Dirac : the purest soul in an atomic age -- Is the end in sight for the Lucasian chair? : Stephen Hawking as millennium professor. |