The Mobile Mathematical Society: Bringing Math to the People

Autor:	Dan Silver
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Enthusiasm Mathematical society media_common.quotation_subject Applied mathematics Classics media_common
Zdroj:	Math Horizons. 17:20-21
ISSN:	1947-6213 1072-4117
DOI:	10.4169/194762110x495443
Popis:	Wallis, Christopher Wren and others with huge scientific appetites met to “discourse and consider Philosophical Enquiries.” In mid-seventeenth century England, the spirit of inquiry pervaded the coffee houses of London, not the two backward-looking universities at Cambridge and Oxford. (Wallis, who intended to be a professor of mathematics, had to leave Cambridge because “that study had died out there.”) The common cord that joined these early scientists more than two centuries before the word “scientist” was invented was enthusiasm.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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