Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics

by Andrew Warwick

Book Overview

Winner of the the Susan Elizabeth Abrams Prize in History of Science.

When Isaac Newton published the Principia three centuries ago, only a few scholars were capable of understanding his conceptually demanding work. Yet this esoteric knowledge quickly became accessible in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when Britain produced many leading mathematical physicists. In this book, Andrew Warwick shows how the education of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226873757
• ISBN13: 9780226873756
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"