| Description |
xxiv, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
'Mind almost divine' -- Isaac Barrow and the foundation of the Lucasian professorship -- 'Very accomplished mathematician, philosopher, chemist' : Newton as Lucasian professor -- Making Newton easy : William Whiston in Cambridge and London -- Sensible Newtonians : Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson -- The negative side of nothing : Edward Waring, Isaac Milner and Newtonian values -- Paper and brass : the Lucasian professorship, 1820-39 -- Arbiters of Victorian science : George Gabriel Stokes and Joshua King -- 'That universal æthereal plenum' : Joseph Larmor's natural history of physics -- Paul Dirac : the purest soul in an atomic age -- Is the end in sight for the Lucasian chair? : Stephen Hawking as millennium professor. |
| Subject |
Mathematicians -- England -- Cambridge -- Biography.
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Mathematicians. |
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England -- Cambridge. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Physicists -- England -- Cambridge -- Biography.
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Physicists. |
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University of Cambridge. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics -- Faculty -- Biography.
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University of Cambridge. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Knox, Kevin C.
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Noakes, Richard.
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| ISBN |
0521663105 |
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