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Mr Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century by Alex D. D. Craik (Paperback, 2008)

A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-kwn album of pencil and watercolour portraits. The artist of most (perhaps all) was Thomas Charles Wageman. Created during 1829-1852, these portraits are of pupils of the famous mat- matical tutor William Hopkins. Though I knew much about several of the subjects, the names of others were then unkwn to me. I was prompted to discover more about them all, and gradually this interest evolved into the present book. The project has expanded naturally to describe the Cambridge educational milieu of the time, the work of William Hopkins, and the later achievements of his pupils and their contemporaries. As I have taught applied mathematics in a British university for forty years, during a time of rapid change, the struggles to implement and to resist reform in mid-nineteenth-century Cambridge struck a chord of recognition. So, too, did debates about academic standards of hours degrees. And my own experiences, as a graduate of a Scottish university who proceeded to C- bridge for postgraduate work, gave me a particular interest in those Scots and Irish students who did much the same more than a hundred years earlier. As a mathematician, I sometimes felt frustrated at having to suppress virtually all of the ? ne mathematics associated with this period: but to have included such technical material would have made this a very different book.

Place of Publication
England
Spine
20mm
Content Note
30 Black & White Illustrations, 48 Colour Illustrations, 48 Black & White Tables, Biography
Author Biography
ADD Craik is a well-respected mathematician and an authority on 19th century mathematics. He has contributed a number of well-regarded articles to journals such as Historia Mathematica and Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London .
Date of Publication
19/02/2008
Imprint
Springer London Ltd
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Mathematics

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