Geometry versus analysis in early 19th-century Scotland: John Leslie, William Wallace, and Thomas Carlyle
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Geometry versus analysis in early 19th-century Scotland: John Leslie, William Wallace, and Thomas Carlyle
zbMATH Open document ID: 0963.01009
author: A. D. D. Craik
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2001-06-25T00:00:00Z
review text: In the early XIX century ``continental'' analysis found its way to Scotland, some years before Cambridge. There was, however, controversy whether to teach Euclidean geometry or new analysis. The paper depicts the transitional period in Scottish mathematics focused upon figures of John Leslie (1766-1832), William Wallace (1768-1843), James Ivory (1765-1842), and Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) who later made a literary career.
reviewed by: Roman Duda
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A73
zbMATH DE Number: 1496590
zbMATH Keywords: Scotland
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: hmat.1999.2264
OpenAlex ID: W2005966918
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DOI: 10.1006/HMAT.1999.2264
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1496590