Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

by Kevin Lambert

In the steam-powered mechanical age of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the work of late Georgian and early Victorian mathematicians depended on far more than the properties of number. British mathematicians came to rely on industrialized paper and pen manufacture, railways and mail, and the print industries of the book, disciplinary journal, magazine, and newspaper. Though not always physically present with one another, the characters central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946831
• ISBN13: 9780822946830
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 6.1"