A welcome side effect of pursuing the history of ideas is that it makes you acutely aware of your own intellectual indebtedness. I have been blessed with a string of outstanding advisors and mentors: John Williams and Donald Burke at Weston High School in Weston, Massachusetts; Gerald Geison at Princeton; David Hall at Harvard; and especially Frank Turner at Yale. Frank saw this book through from its inception to completion with unparalleled insight into the Victorian era, helpful criticism, and warm congeniality. Jon Butler’s infectious enthusiasm, shrewd guidance, and astute sense of religious history were also enormously important. I profited greatly from the comments of others at Yale, including David Brion Davis, Harry S. Stout, and Louise Stevenson.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
The Allure of Pure Mathematics in the Victorian Age
1. Heavenly Symbols: Sources of Victorian Mathematical Idealism
2. God and Math at Harvard: Benjamin Peirce and the Divinity of Mathematics
3. George Boole and the Genesis of Symbolic Logic
4. Augustus De Morgan and the Logic of Relations
5. Earthly Calculations: Mathematics and Professionalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
The Allure of Pure Mathematics in the Victorian Age
1. Heavenly Symbols: Sources of Victorian Mathematical Idealism
2. God and Math at Harvard: Benjamin Peirce and the Divinity of Mathematics
3. George Boole and the Genesis of Symbolic Logic
4. Augustus De Morgan and the Logic of Relations
5. Earthly Calculations: Mathematics and Professionalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2007
ISBN : 978-0801885532
Editorial : The Johns Hopkins University Press
Autor: Daniel J. Cohen
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