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Equations from God : pure mathematics and Victorian faith / Daniel J. Cohen.

By: Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematicsPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (x, 242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781435692558
  • 1435692551
  • 9780801891861
  • 0801891868
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Equations from God.DDC classification:
  • 261.5/5 22
LOC classification:
  • BL265.M3 C64 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : The allure of pure mathematics in the Victorian Age -- Heavenly symbols : sources of Victorian mathematical idealism -- God and math at Harvard : Benjamin Peirce and the divinity of mathematics -- George Boole and the genesis of symbolic logic -- Augustus De Morgan and the logic of relations -- Earthly calculations : mathematics and professionalism in the late nineteenth century.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index.

Introduction : The allure of pure mathematics in the Victorian Age -- Heavenly symbols : sources of Victorian mathematical idealism -- God and math at Harvard : Benjamin Peirce and the divinity of mathematics -- George Boole and the genesis of symbolic logic -- Augustus De Morgan and the logic of relations -- Earthly calculations : mathematics and professionalism in the late nineteenth century.

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