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Edmund Taylor Whittaker Papers
The collection consists mainly of correspondence between E.T. Whittaker and his son, J.M. Whittaker, as well as the elder Whittaker's scientific writings, reviews and articles. It also includes some autobiographical material.
Edmund Taylor Whittaker
Features a biographical sketch of the English mathematician Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956), presented by the School of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland. Discusses Whittaker's contributions to the study of functions of complex variables.
Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians
Burn for Burn
Einstein's Jury
Einstein's Jury is the dramatic story of how astronomers in Germany, England, and America competed to test Einstein's developing theory of relativity. Weaving a rich narrative based on extensive archival research, Jeffrey Crelinsten shows how these early scientific debates shaped cultural attitudes we hold today. The book examines Einstein's theory of general relativity through the eyes of astronomers, many of whom were not convinced of the legitimacy of Einstein's startling breakthrough. These were individuals with international reputations to uphold and benefactors and shareholders to please, yet few of them understood the new theory coming from the pen of Germany's up-and-coming theoretic...
A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity
Accessible treatment offers highly detailed accounts concerning development of ideas and theories about the nature of electricity and space (aether), focusing on period from Descartes to Lorentz, Einstein, and Minkowski. 1960 edition.
Ether and Modernity
Ether and Modernity offers a snapshot of the status of an epistemic object, the "ether" (or "aether"), in the early twentieth century. The contributed papers show that the ether was often regarded as one of the objects of modernity, hand in hand with the electron, radioactivity or X-rays, and not simply as the stubborn residue of an old-fashioned, long-discarded science. The prestige and authority of scientists and popularisers like Oliver Lodge and Arthur Eddington in Britain, Phillip Lenard in Germany or Dayton C. Miller in the USA was instrumental in the preservation, defence or even re-emergence of the ether in the 1920s. Moreover, the consolidation of wireless communications and radio b...
Alumni Cantabrigienses
Detailed and comprehensive, the second volume of the Venns' directory, in six parts, includes all known alumni until 1900.
