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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, eds.

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: History of mathematics ; 42Publisher: Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, 2014Description: XVIII, 391 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781470414696
Subject(s): MSC: MSC: *01-06 | 01A60 | 01A70 | 01A80 | 00B15LOC classification:
  • QA10.8
Contents:
Placing World War I in the History of Mathematics / David Aubin and Catherine Goldstein
Cambridge Mathematicians' Responses to the First World War / June Barrow-Green ; The Total War of Paris Mathematicians / David Aubin, Hélène Gispert, and Catherine Goldstein
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
Debating the Place of Mathematics at the École 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 Gâvre / David Aubin
Why Aerodynamics Failed to Take off in Nancy : An Unexpected Casualty of World War I / Laurent Rollet and Philippe Nabonnand.
PPN: PPN: 782107966
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Freihandbestand ausleihbar Fachbibliothek Mathematik Bibliothek / frei aufgestellt Gesch./Phil. / War Available 36410573090
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