Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index.
Contents
Introduction : The allure of pure mathematics in the Victorian Age -- Heavenly symbols : sources of Victorian mathematical idealism -- God and math at Harvard : Benjamin Peirce and the divinity of mathematics -- George Boole and the genesis of symbolic logic -- Augustus De Morgan and the logic of relations -- Earthly calculations : mathematics and professionalism in the late nineteenth century.
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