Format: Hardback
Pages: 330
ISBN: 9780822946830
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Description:
In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians came to depend on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the print industries of the book, disciplinary journal, magazine, and newspaper. Although not always physically present with one another, the characters central to this book—from George Green to William Rowan Hamilton—relied heavily on communication technologies as they developed their theories in consort with colleagues.