Wranglers and physicists
Subtitle: studies on Cambridge physics in the nineteenth century
By: edited by P.M. Harman.
Contributors: Harman, P. M. 1943-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Manchester Univ Pr
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; Dover, N.H., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907 -- Congresses.; Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 -- Congresses.; Physics -- England -- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) -- History -- Congresses.; Mathematics -- England -- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) -- History -- Congresses.; Physics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- England -- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) -- History -- Congresses.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 242-256.
Essays based on papers presented at a conference held at the University of Cambridge.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The educational matrix / David B. Wilson; title: Geologists and mathematicians / Crosbie Smith; title: Mathematics and mathematical physics from Cambridge, 1815-40 / I. Grattan-Guinness; title: Integral theorems in Cambridge mathematical physics, 1830-55 / J.J. Cross; title: Mathematics and physical reality in William Thomson's electromagnetic theory / Ole Knudsen; title: Mechanical image and reality in Maxwell's electromagnetic theory / Daniel M. Siegel; title: Edinburgh philosophy and Cambridge physics / P.M. Harman; title: Modifying the continuum / Jed Z. Buchwald.