Wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century

Author(s)

• Harman, P. M. (Peter Michael)

Bibliographic Information

Wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century

edited by P.M. Harman

Manchester University Press, c1985

Note

Essays based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cambridge

Bibliography: p. 242-256

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The educational matrix / David B. Wilson
• Geologists and mathematicians / Crosbie Smith
• Mathematics and mathematical physics from Cambridge, 1815-40 / I. Grattan-Guinness
• Integral theorems in Cambridge mathematical physics, 1830-55 / J.J. Cross
• Mathematics and physical reality in William Thomson's electromagnetic theory / Ole Knudsen
• Mechanical image and reality in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory / Daniel M. Siegel
• Edinburgh philosophy and Cambridge physics / P.M. Harman
• Modifying the continuum / Jed Z. Buchwald

Details

• NCID: BA01214783
• ISBN:
  • 0719017564
• LCCN: 85001485
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Manchester, UK
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 261 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC9.G7
  • DC19 : 530/.09426/59
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Physics -- England -- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Mathematics -- England -- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Physics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- England -- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907 -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 -- Congresses