Mr Hopkins' Men

Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century
2007
ISBN: 978-1-84628-790-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 916 g

A few years ago, in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, I came across a remarkable but then little-known 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 unknown 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 honours 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craik, A. D. D.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Educating the Elite.- Introducing Hopkins and His Wranglers.- The Student Experience, 1820–1860.- Cambridge University in Context.- Teaching at Cambridge.- William Hopkins.- Hopkins' Top Wranglers, 1829–1854.- Careers of the Wranglers.- The “Cambridge Stamp”.- Wranglers at Home: Four Biographies.- Universities and Colleges.- Wranglers Abroad: Churchmen and Educators in the Colonies.- The Growth of a Research Community.- Achievements in the Mathematical Sciences.- Postscript.

Über Autor(innen)

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”.