Description
Product ID: | 9780198863953 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Beyond the Learned Academy |
Subtitle: | The Practice of Mathematics, 1600-1850 |
Authors: | Author: Christopher Hollings, Philip Beeley |
Page Count: | 512 |
Subjects: | History of mathematics, History of mathematics, Impact of science and technology on society, Impact of science & technology on society, c 1700 to c 1800, c 1800 to c 1900 |
Description: | Comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, this volume aims to exemplify the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century. The tremendous growth of the mathematical sciences in the early modern world was reflected contemporaneously in an increasingly sophisticated level of practical mathematics in fields such as merchants'' accounts, instrument making, teaching, navigation, and gauging. In many ways, mathematics shaped the knowledge culture of the age, infiltrating workshops, dockyards, and warehouses, before extending through the factories of the Industrial Revolution to the trading companies and banks of the nineteenth century. While theoretical developments in the history of mathematics have been made the topic of numerous scholarly investigations, in many cases based around the work of key figures such as Descartes, Huygens, Leibniz, or Newton, practical mathematics, especially from the seventeenth century onwards, has been largely neglected. The present volume, comprising fifteen essays by leading authorities in the history of mathematics, seeks to fill this gap by exemplifying the richness, diversity, and breadth of mathematical practice from the seventeenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth century. |
Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2024-01-05 |