From Newton to Hawking
Subtitle: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics
Contributors: Stephen W. Hawking (Foreword); Kevin C. Knox (Editor); Richard Noakes (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780521663106
Subjects: History of mathematics; History of science; Mathematicians; Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics; Biography & Autobiography; Science; History; Biography/Autobiography; Faculty; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Science / History; Biography; Physicists; University of Cambridge.; Cambridge; England
First sentence: The status today accorded the Lucasian professorship tends to obscure Cambridge's more dubious honour as the last of the medieval and Renaissance universities to secure a endowed professorship in the mathematical sciences.