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UNINA9910794726503321 |
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The war of guns and mathematics : mathematical practices and communities in France and its western allies around World War I / / David Aubin, Catherine Goldstein, editors |
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Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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History of Mathematics ; ; Volume 42 |
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01-0201A6065-0370-0397-03 |
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Disciplina |
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War and mathematics |
World War, 1914-1918 - Science |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Placing World War I in the History of Mathematics / David Aubin and Catherine Goldstein -- Part I: Starting Up. Cambridge Mathematicians' Responses to the First World War / June Barrow-Green -- The Total War of Paris Mathematicians / David Aubin, Hââeláene Gispert, and Catherine Goldstein -- Part II: Joining In. Italian Mathematicians and the First World War : Intellectual Debates and Institutional Innovations / Pietro Nastasi and Rossana Tazzioli -- A Mobilized Community : Mathematicians in the United States during the First World War / Thomas Archibald, Della Dumbaugh, and Deborah Kent -- Part III: Moving On. Debating the Place of Mathematics at the âEcole polytechnique around World War I / Jean-Luc Chabert and Christian Gilain -- "I'm Just a Mathematician" : Why and How Mathematicians Collaborated with Military Ballisticians at ãGavre / David Aubin -- Why Aerodynamics Failed to Take off in Nancy : An Unexpected Casualty of World War I / Laurent Rollet and Philippe Nabonnand. |
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