Tony Crilly

Broschiertes Buch

The Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman

A mathematician from the North Country

Beschreibung

Kirkman's work in the nineteenth century presaged many of the topics in modern Combinatorics. This book is a biography of Kirkman's life and it does not dwell on the technicalities of advanced mathematics, and hopefully it will appeal to the non-mathematician. This biography is the biography of a Victorian polymath active in mathematics, philosophy, as well as his being a social activist with controversial views.

Autor

There is not a competitor for this biography but a companion would be my Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age, Johns Hopkins University Press (2007). This biography takes its place alongside biographies of scientists and mathematicians, in which I have recently been involved. Particularly with (a) A prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 (Springer 2020), (b) The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel, (Cambridge University Press 2024), and an upcoming biography of William Whewell (1794-1866). Whereas I was an author for the mathematical chapters in these books, I am the sole author in this Kirkman biography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781326778422
• ISBN-10: 1326778420
• Artikelnr.: 72783963