I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science

by Marjorie Senechal

Book Overview

In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch.

Drawing on her own personal and professional relationship with Wrinch and archives in the United States, Canada, and England, Marjorie Senechal explores the life and work of this provocative, scintillating mind. Senechal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199732590
• ISBN13: 9780199732593
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"