Arthur Cayley as Sadleirian professor: A glimpse of mathematics teaching at 19th-century Cambridge

DOI10.1006/hmat.1999.2233zbMath0944.01004MaRDI QIDQ1300642

Tony Crilly

Publication date: 18 September 2000

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1999.2233

zbMATH Keywords

geometry; English university education; Sadleirian chair of pure mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A70: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

01A73: History of mathematics at specific universities

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