A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

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