scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1778887

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Authors Sloan Evans Despeaux

Publication date 5 February 2003

zbMATH Keywords

foreign mathematical publications in Britain 19th centuryinsularity of British mathematics around 1830

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74) Bibliographic studies (01A90)

Review text

In this well-documented article Charles Babbage's 1830 claim is put to a test that Britain was ``particularly with respect to the more difficult and abstract sciences \dots much below other nations (p. 61). The author considers scientific papers contained in scientific journals as significant indicators of research and includes in her article many valuable tables concerning the development of journals, the percentage of foreign publications etc. She states that ``the exclusively mathematical journals fueled the general trend of growth, while the majority of general science journals \dots experienced no significant increase in the number of foreign mathematical contributions over the century (p. 69). She concludes that the British mathematical publication community was by the end of the nineteenth century ``most definitely departing from insularity (p. 83). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0990.00012].

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