Warwick, Andrew.

Masters of theory Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics / [electronic resource] : Andrew Warwick. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003. - xiv, 572 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-547) and index.

1. Writing a pedagogical history of mathematical physics -- 2. The reform coach -- 3. A mathematical world on paper -- 4. Exercising the student body -- 5. Routh's men -- 6. Making sense of Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in mid-Victorian Cambridge -- 7. Joseph Larmor, the electronic theory of matter, and the principle of relativity -- 8. Transforming the field -- 9. Through the convex looking glass -- Epilogue : training, continuity, and change.


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University of Cambridge--History--19th century.


Mathematical physics--History--19th century.


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