Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity

by Massimo Mazzotti

A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.

The nineteenth century opened with a major shift in European mathematics, and in the Kingdom of Naples, this occurred earlier than elsewhere. Between 1790 and 1830 its leading scientific institutions rejected as untrustworthy the "very modern mathematics" of French analysis and in its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226826740
• ISBN13: 9780226826745
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"