Robin Wilson
Robin Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. He is a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University, and a visit Processor at the London School of Economics. He is former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.
Books by Robin Wilson
“The authors aren’t setting out lists of mathematical facts, but looking at who was doing and using mathematics, and why, in an approachable way that presents context as well as achievement. In the earlier part of the century British mathematical education and research was transformed by reformers like Augustus De Morgan and Charles Babbage, who brought in new ideas from France and Germany.” Read more...
The best books on Ada Lovelace
Ursula Martin, Mathematician
Interviews with Robin Wilson
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Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
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A Concise History of Mathematics
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The History of Mathematics: A Reader
by Jeremy Gray & John Fauvel -
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The Mathematical Pamphlets of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Related Pieces
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Mathematical Models
by H. M. Cundy and A. P. Rollett.
The best books on The History of Mathematics, recommended by Robin Wilson
The best books on The History of Mathematics, recommended by Robin Wilson
Why should we be interested in the history of mathematics? Mathematics, like painting, music, literature, has a long history, says Robin Wilson. Indeed, it’s longer than most, since the first writing is believed to be numerical. Mathematics is also multicultural, with its historical origins in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Interviews where books by Robin Wilson were recommended
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In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
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Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception and Secret Authorship of 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'
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Mathematics in Victorian Britain
by Adrian Rice, Raymond Flood & Robin Wilson -
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
The best books on Ada Lovelace, recommended by Ursula Martin
The best books on Ada Lovelace, recommended by Ursula Martin
Ada Lovelace has become an iconic figure for women in science and is often credited with the invention of modern computing. But, as Ursula Martin—mathematician, computer scientist and Lovelace biographer—explains, all of that is a bit overblown. The Lovelace myth obscures the truth about a woman who was certainly a very brilliant mathematician, but who was also often frustrated in her scientific ambitions, in poor health and unhappy.
