The war of guns and mathematics : mathematical practices and communities in France and its western allies around World War I

The war of guns and mathematics : mathematical practices and communities in France and its western allies around World War I / David Aubin, Catherine Goldstein, editors.

For a long time, World War I has been shortchanged by the historiography of science. Until recently, World War II was usually considered as the defining event for the formation of the modern relationship between science and society. In this context, the effects of the First World War, by contrast, w...

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Other Authors: Aubin, David, 1967-, Goldstein, Catherine (Mathematician)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2014]
Series:History of mathematics.
Subjects:
1914-1918
War and mathematics.
World War, 1914-1918 > Science.
Science
War and mathematics
Entente
Mathematik
Mathematiker
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
Wertorientierung
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
History and biography > Research exposition (monographs, survey articles)
History and biography > History of mathematics and mathematicians > 20th century.
Numerical analysis > Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01)
Mechanics of particles and systems > Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01)
Mathematics education > Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01)
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Table of Contents:
  • Placing World War I in the history of mathematics Cambridge mathematicians' responses to the First World War The total war of Paris mathematicians Italian mathematicians and the First World War: Intellectual debates and institutional innovations A mobilized community: Mathematicians in the United States during the First World War Debating the place of mathematics at the École polytechnique around World War I "I'm just a mathematician": Why and how mathematicians collaborated with military ballisticians at Gâvre Why aerodynamics failed to take off in Nancy: An unexpected casualty of World War I.

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