Oxfords Savilian Professors Of Geometry

Author : Robin Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192639935
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry written by Robin Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Savilian Professorships in Geometry and Astronomy at Oxford University were founded in 1619 by Sir Henry Savile, distinguished scholar and Warden of Merton College. The Geometry chair, in particular, is the earliest University-based mathematics professorship in England, predating the first Cambridge equivalent by about sixty years. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the geometry chair, a meeting was held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the talks presented at this meeting have formed the basis for this fully edited and lavishly illustrated book, which outlines the first 400 years of Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry. Starting with Henry Briggs, the co-inventor of logarithms, this volume proceeds via such figures as John Wallis, a founder member of the Royal Society, and Edmond Halley, via the 19th-century figures of Stephen Rigaud, Baden Powell, Henry Smith, and James Joseph Sylvester, to the 20th century and the present day. Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First 400 Years assumes no mathematical background, and should therefore appeal to the interested general reader with an interest in mathematics and the sciences. It should also be of interest to anyone interested in the history of mathematics or of the development of Oxford and its namesake university. To all of these audiences it offers portraits of mathematicians at work and an accessible exposition of historical mathematics in the context of its times.

Author : Robin Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198869037
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry written by Robin Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the geometry chair, a meeting was held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the talks presented at this meeting have formed the basis for this fully edited and lavishly illustrated book, which outlines the first 400 years of Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry.

Author : John Fauvel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019968197X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Figures written by John Fauvel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mathematical tradition at Oxford is one of the oldest in Britain, and Oxford scholars have been at the forefront of mathematical research for the past eight centuries. This is the story of the intellectual and social life of this community, and of its interactions with the wider world.

Author : John Fauvel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019150419X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Figures written by John Fauvel and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Fauvel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198523093
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Figures written by John Fauvel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the intellectual and social life of a community, and of its interactions with the wider world. For 800 years 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 who 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 founding of the university of Cambridge, and the Newtonian revolution all had a great influence on the later development of mathematics at Oxford. So too did many well-known figures: Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Edmond Halley, Benjamin Jowett, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, G. H. Hardy, to name but a few. Later chapters bring us to the twentieth century, and the book ends with some entertaining reminiscences by Sir Michael Atiyah of the thirty years he spent as an Oxford mathematician.

Author : J. W. L. Glaisher
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656354719
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Mathematical Papers of Henry John Stephen Smith, M.A., F. R. S, Vol. 1 of 2 written by J. W. L. Glaisher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Collected Mathematical Papers of Henry John Stephen Smith, M.A., F. R. S, Vol. 1 of 2: Late Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford On some of the Methods at present in use in Pure Geometry Transactions of the Ashmolean Society, Vol. II. No. Xxv Read Dec. 1, 1851. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Wallis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475743122
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals written by John Wallis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wallis (1616-1703) was the most influential English mathematician prior to Newton. He published his most famous work, Arithmetica Infinitorum, in Latin in 1656. This book studied the quadrature of curves and systematised the analysis of Descartes and Cavelieri. Upon publication, this text immediately became the standard book on the subject and was frequently referred to by subsequent writers. This will be the first English translation of this text ever to be published.

Author : University of Oxford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statutes Made for the University of Oxford and for the Colleges and Halls Therein by the Commissioners Acting in Pursuance of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act, 1877, Etc written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Oxford University Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
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Download or read book Statutes Made for the University of Oxford, and for the Colleges and Halls Therein written by Great Britain. Oxford University Commission and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. University of Oxford Commissioners (1877)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
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Download or read book Statutes Made for the University of Oxford, and for the Colleges and Halls Therein written by Great Britain. University of Oxford Commissioners (1877) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: