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Titolo: | 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.: | 9910814492903321 |
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