Mathematics in the metropolis: a survey of Victorian London

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1996.0039MaRDI QIDQ674568zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adrian C. Rice

Publication date 10 August 1997

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1996.0039

zbMATH Keywords

social changesteaching university-level mathematicswomenworking class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics at institutions and academies (non-university) (01A74) Schools of mathematics (01A72)

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