John Fauvel, Raymond Flood e Robin Wilson
OUP Oxford | 2013 - 2.ª edição | 417 páginas | rar - pdf | 20 Mb
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This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For eight centuries mathematics has been researched and studied at Oxford, and the subject and its teaching have undergone profound changes during that time. This highly readable and beautifully illustrated book reveals the richness and influence of Oxford's mathematical tradition and the fascinating characters that helped to shape it.
The story begins with the founding of the University of Oxford and the establishing of the medieval curriculum, in which mathematics had an important role. The Black Death, the advent of printing, the Civil War, and the Newtonian revolution all had a great influence on the development of mathematics at Oxford. So too did many well-known figures: Roger Bacon, Henry Savile, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), and G. H. Hardy, to name but a few. Later chapters bring us to the 20th century, with some entertaining reminiscences by Sir Michael Atiyah of the thirty years he spent as an Oxford mathematician.
In this second edition the story is brought right up to the opening of the new Mathematical Institute in 2013 with a foreword from Marcus du Sautoy and recent developments from Peter M. Neumann.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
Eight centuries of mathematical traditions 3
john fauvel
PART I : EARLY DAYS 35
1. Medieval Oxford 37
john north
2. Renaissance Oxford 51
john fauvel and robert goulding
3. Mathematical instruments 75
willem hackmann
PART II : THE 17TH CENTURY 91
4. The first professors 93
allan chapman
5. John Wallis 115
raymond flood and john fauvel
6. Edmond Halley 141
allan chapman
PART III : THE 18TH CENTURY 165
7. Oxford’s Newtonian school 167
allan chapman
8. Georgian Oxford 181
john fauvel
9. Th omas Hornsby and the Radcliff e Observatory 203
allan chapman
PART IV : THE VICTORIAN ERA 221
10. Th e 19th century 223
keith hannabuss
11. Henry Smith 239
keith hannabuss
12. Charles Dodgson 257
robin wilson
13. James Joseph Sylvester 281
john fauvel
PART V : THE MODERN ERA 303
14. Th e 20th century 305
margaret e. rayner
15. Some personal reminiscences 325
sir michael atiyah
EPILOGUE 335
Recent developments 337
peter m. neumann
Appendix: Oxford’s mathematical Chairs 359
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