Title: Wranglers and physicists : studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century /
Authors: Harman, P. M. 1943-
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Kelvin, William Thomson, Congresses.; Maxwell, James Clerk, Congresses.; Physics England Cambridge History Congresses.; Mathematics England Cambridge History Congresses.; Physics Study and teaching (Higher) England Cambridge History Congresses.; Mathematics history; Physics history
Contents: 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.