A Prodigy of Universal Genius : Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859.
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| Language: | English |
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2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments and Permissions
- Introduction
- Robert Leslie Ellis: Life and Work
- Structure of the Book
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Part I: Chapters
- Chapter 1: From Bath to Cambridge: The Early Life and Education of Robert Leslie Ellis
- 1.1 Classical Tuition
- 1.2 The World of the Bath Literati
- 1.3 Ellis the Diarist
- 1.4 Ellis at Cambridge
- 1.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 2: "A Senior Wrangler Among Senior Wranglers": The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Thomas Stephens Davies (c.1794-1851)
- 2.3 Ellis's Mathematical Development (1827-1834)
- 2.4 Cambridge, 1836-1840
- 2.4.1 Tuition
- 2.4.2 Coaching
- 2.5 Examinations
- Chapter 3: Ellis's Character, John Grote and the Cambridge Network
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Obituarising the Man
- 3.3 Approaching Knowledge
- 3.4 The Making of the Man
- 3.5 Character: The Man as Made
- 3.6 Ellis and the Rising Tide of Doubt
- 3.7 'A Galaxy of Great Men': The Cambridge Network
- 3.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Robert Leslie Ellis as Editor and Contributor to Mathematical Journals
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The Undergraduate
- 4.3 The Cambridge Mathematical Journal
- 4.3.1 Ellis's Juvenilia
- 4.3.2 Algebra and Geometry
- 4.3.3 Differential Equations and Multiple Integrals
- 4.3.4 Editorship
- 4.4 The British Association, and After
- 4.4.1 Ellis's Report on Analysis
- 4.5 Epilogue
- Chapter 5: Ellis on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
- 5.1 Ellis and Least Squares in 1844
- 5.2 Ellis and the Foundations of Probability in 1842
- 5.3 Back to Least Squares in 1850
- 5.4 Ellis and Mathematical Statistics
- Chapter 6: Ellis's Philosophy and Bacon Scholarship
- 6.1 Origins: Whewell and the Trinity Circle
- 6.2 Philosophy at Bath, 1834-1836
- 6.3 Philosophy at Cambridge, 1836-1840.
- 6.4 Ellis's Philosophy in the 1840s-50s
- Chapter 7: Robert Leslie Ellis: An Almost Perfect Moral Nature
- 7.1 The Transcendence of Mathematical Knowing
- 7.2 Maintaining Transcendence Through History
- 7.3 Defending Transcendent Truth
- 7.4 Conclusion
- Part II: Manuscripts
- Chapter 8: Ellis's Papers in Trinity College, Cambridge
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Provenance and Archival History
- 8.3 The Diaries
- 8.4 Correspondence
- 8.5 Notebooks and Miscellaneous Notes
- 8.6 Concluding Remarks
- Diaries
- Note to the Reader
- Selected Diaries
- Letters
- Note to the Reader
- List of Selected Letters
- Selected letters
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Bibliography of Ellis's Writings
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Miscellaneous
- Appendix 2: Chronological List of Ellis's Mathematical Reading
- Appendix 3: Chronological List of Ellis's Diaries
- General Bibliography
- Index.