Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
(Part of the Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Series)
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In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended 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. Though not always physically present with one another, the characters central...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0822946831
ISBN13:9780822946830
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:330 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 9.1" x 6.1"
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