The rise of British analysis in the early 20th century: the role of G.H. Hardy and the London Mathematical Society

Rice, Adrian; Wilson, Robin

doi:10.1016/s0315-0860(03)00002-8

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“…1 Here we document the arrival and subsequent growth of a branch of modern mathematics in Great Britain. From some perspectives, geometry does not seem to have had the status of analysis in the period of Hardy and Littlewood [Rice and Wilson, 2003]. We find that in its day it was considered to be at least equally important, although less successful in strictly intellectual terms and less lasting in its influence.…”

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confidence: 78%

Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940

Barrow-Green

Gray

2006

Historia Mathematica

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This paper traces the ebbs and flows of the history of geometry at Cambridge from the time of Cayley to 1940, and therefore the arrival of a branch of modern mathematics in Great Britain. Cayley had little immediate influence, but projective geometry blossomed and then declined during the reign of H.F. Baker, and was revived by Hodge at the end of the period. We also consider the implications these developments have for the concept of a school in the history of mathematics.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 78%

Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940

Barrow-Green

Gray

2006

Historia Mathematica

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“…From that form of communication sprang the idea of international conferences, the first taking place in Zürich, in 1897. It was during one of these international conferences, at first mostly used as a way to boost the national ego (Alberts & Beckers, 2010;Rice & Wilson, 2003), that the idea of the Union Mathématique Internationale (UMI) arose. Founded in 1920 during an international conference in Strasbourg, the Union was discontinued during the growing political unrest and economically harsh times of the early 1930s.…”

Section: International Mathematical Unionmentioning

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Why to publish on mathematics education so as to be useful? Educational Studies in Mathematics and its founder Hans Freudenthal

Beckers

2019

Educ Stud Math

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In 1968, Hans Freudenthal launched the journal Educational Studies in Mathematics. This paper describes the events leading to the foundation of this journal. It turns out that his wife, Suus Freudenthal, deserves more credit for her husband's interest and achievements in mathematics education. The couple was interested in education from a social democratic perspective. The events leading to the foundation of the journal show that lack of success for Dutch national educational reforms, combined with problems noted by his colleagues abroad on their respective reforms, triggered Hans Freudenthal to embark on this enterprise, and contributed to its success.

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“…This he achieved as editor of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society and the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. 22 His devotion to the society was enduring: 'This Society has always meant more to me that any other scientific society to which I have belonged. My record of attendances since I became secretary .…”

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Knowledge communities in Europe from the Renaissance through the Cold War

Lubenow¹

2006

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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This article examines Karl Mannheim's famous characterisation of the organisers of knowledge as an ‘unanchored relatively classless stratum’. It looks closely at Ficino's Florentine Academy, Cesi's Accademia dei Lincei, the authors of the Encyclopédie, William Whewell and his circle at Cambridge, G. H. Hardy and the London Mathematical Society, Sartre and French intellectuals in the 1940s and 50s, and finally Thomas Kuhn and the Society of Fellows at Harvard, to show that knowledge is relational. It describes the social characteristics of knowledge communities, the kinds of knowledge they organise, and the relations of knowledge communities to centres of power.

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The rise of British analysis in the early 20th century: the role of G.H. Hardy and the London Mathematical Society

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940

Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940

Why to publish on mathematics education so as to be useful? Educational Studies in Mathematics and its founder Hans Freudenthal

Knowledge communities in Europe from the Renaissance through the Cold War

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