A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-85257-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 875 g

Reihe: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817–1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. 

Written by a diverse team of experts, the chapters in the book’s first part contain in-depth examinations of, among other things, Ellis’s family, education, Bacon scholarship and mathematical contributions. The second part consists of annotated transcriptions of a selection of Ellis’s diaries and correspondence. Taken together, A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817–1859 is a rich resource for historians of science, historians of mathematics and Victorian scholars alike. 

- Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verburgt, Lukas M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Chapters.- 1. From Bath to Cambridge: The Early Life and Education of Robert Leslie Ellis (Christopher Stray).- 2. “A Senior Wrangler among Senior Wranglers”: The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis (June Barrow-Green).- 3. Ellis’s Character, John Grote and the Cambridge Network, 1830-1866 (John R. Gibbins).- 4. Robert Leslie Ellis as Editor and Contributor to Mathematical Journals (Tony Crilly).- 5. Ellis on Mathematical Statistics and Probability (Stephen M. Stigler).- 6. Ellis’s Philosophy and Bacon Scholarship (Lukas M. Verburgt).- 7. Robert Leslie Ellis: An Almost Perfect Moral Nature (Joan L. Richards).- Part 2. Manuscripts.- 8. The Ellis Papers in Trinity College, Cambridge (Jonathan Smith).- Appendix 1: Bibliography of Ellis’s Writings.- Appendix 2: List of Ellis’s Mathematical Reading.- Appendix 3: List of Ellis’s Diaries.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Lukas M. Verburgt is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Freudenthal Institute, History and Philosophy of Science, at Utrecht University. He has held visiting research positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Cambridge; between September 2021 and June 2022 he will be Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). His research concerns the changing relationship between science and philosophy as sources of knowledge in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. He is the author of John Venn: A Life in Logic (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) and (co-editor) of Aristotle’s Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming).