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

• Pubblicazione: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 510.944/09041
• Soggetto topico: War and mathematics; World War, 1914-1918 - Science
• Classificazione: 01-0201A6065-0370-0397-03
• Persona (resp. second.): AubinDavid <1967->; GoldsteinCatherine (Mathematician)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The war of guns and mathematics
• ISBN: 1-4704-1859-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794726503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of mathematics ; ; Volume 42.