| Description |
1 online resource (183 pages) |
| Series |
History of Mathematics ; v. 28 |
|
History of mathematics.
|
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Introduction; Olinde Rodrigues and his times; Towards a better understanding of Olinde Rodrigues and his circle: Family and faith in his life and career; Euphrasie and Olinde Rodrigues: The 'woman question' within Saint-Simonism; Rodrigues's early work in mathematics, 1813-1816; The 1839 paper on permutations: Its relation to the Rodrigues formula and further developments; Olinde Rodrigues and combinatorics; Olinde Rodrigues's paper of 1840 on a group of transformations; After Rodrigues: From rotations to quaternions; Index |
| Summary |
A mathematician, a social reformer within Saint-Simon's utopian-socialist movement, and later a prosperous banker, Olinde Rodrigues is a fascinating figure of the city of Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century. His many interests and associations make him a remarkable character in the history of nineteenth-century mathematics. Since archival resources on Rodrigues are not abundant and since they are scattered throughout a variety of archives-from large to very small-studying him presents difficult historiographic challenges. These are met for the first time in this book, written by |
| Notes |
Back Cover |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rodrigues, Olinde, 1794-1850.
|
| SUBJECT |
Rodrigues, Olinde, 1794-1850 fast |
| Subject |
Mathematicians -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
|
|
Mathematicians
|
|
France
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
|
|
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Ortiz, Eduardo L
|
| ISBN |
9781470438968 |
|
1470438968 |
|
