Möbius and his band : mathematics and astronomy in nineteenth-century Germany / edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson.

Date:
1993
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Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Physical description

172 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Contents

A Saxon mathematician / John Fauvel -- The German mathematical community / Gert Schubring -- The astronomical revolution / Allan Chapman -- Möbius's geometrical mechanics / Jeremy Gray -- The development of topology / Norman Biggs -- Möbius's modern legacy / Ian Stewart.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. [162]-163) and index

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    History of Medicine
    AD.37.AA8
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  • 019853969X