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A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-kwn album of pencil and watercolour portraits. The artist of most (perhaps all) was Thomas Charles Wageman. Created during 1829-1852, these portraits are of pupils of the famous mat- matical tutor William Hopkins. Though I knew much about several of the subjects, the names of others were then unkwn to me. I was prompted to discover more about them all, and gradually this interest evolved into the present book. The project has expanded naturally to describe the Cambridge educational milieu of the time, the work of William Hopkins, and the later achievements of his pupils and their contemporaries. As I have taught applied mathematics in a British university for forty years, during a time of rapid change, the struggles to implement and to resist reform in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge struck a chord of recognition. So, too, did debates about academic standards of hours degrees. And my own experiences, as a graduate of a Scottish university who proceeded to C- bridge for postgraduate work, gave me a particular interest in those Scots and Irish students who did much the same more than a hundred years earlier. As a mathematician, I sometimes felt frustrated at having to suppress virtually all of the ? ne mathematics associated with this period: but to have included such technical material would have made this a very different book.

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PublisherSpringer London Ltd

ISBN-101848001320

ISBN-139781848001329

eBay Product ID (ePID)105772801

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Number of PagesXiv, 410 Pages

Publication NameMr Hopkins' Men : Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

SubjectMathematics

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, Science, Mathematics

AuthorAlex D. D. Craik

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Weight23.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

Height235mm

Width155mm

Weight676g

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Date of Publication19/02/2008

Place of PublicationEngland

Spine20mm

GenreMathematics

Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom

Author BiographyADD Craik is a well-respected mathematician and an authority on 19th century mathematics. He has contributed a number of well-regarded articles to journals such as Historia Mathematica and Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London .

Content Note30 Black & White Illustrations, 48 Colour Illustrations, 48 Black & White Tables, Biography

ImprintSpringer London Ltd