Title | From Newton to Hawking : a history of Cambridge University's Lucasian professors of mathematics / edited by Kevin C. Knox, Richard Noakes |
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Imprint | Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2003 |
Descript | xxiv, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Isaac Barrow and the foundation of the Lucasian professorship -- 'Very accomplished mathematician, philosopher, chemist': Newton as Lucasian professor -- Sensible Newtonians: Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson -- Arbiters of Victorian science: George Gabriel Stokes and Joshua King -- Paul Dirac: the purest soul in an atomic age -- Is the end in sight for the Lucasian chair? Stephen Hawking as millennium professor
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