Mathematics in the metropolis: a survey of Victorian London (Q674568)

Divided into four sections: `Academic institutions', `Military mathematics', `Mathematics for women' and `Technical education', this paper examines the teaching of strictly university-level mathematics in a wide variety of teaching establishments in Victorian London. Stressing the prevalence of Cambridge-trained mathematicians, like A. De Morgan, and particularly the dominance of University College mathematics during the period 1837-1901, the author achieves much more beyond a fruitful comparison of teaching styles and courses. A. Rice has shown that a study of mathematics education at the university level `can shed some light on social developments in the capital, particularly with respect to women and the working class' (p. 412). Opening with a list of other aspects of London mathematics worthy of consideration besides university-level mathematics, the survey motivates further research in this multidimensional topic!