Masters of theory. Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
Note on Conventions and Sources......Page 14
1. Writing a Pedagogical History of Mathematical Physics......Page 16
2. The Reform Coach: Teaching Mixed Mathematics in Georgian and Victorian Cambridge......Page 64
3. A Mathematical World on Paper: The Material Culture and Practice-Ladenness of Mixed Mathematics......Page 129
4. Exercising the Student Body: Mathematics, Manliness, and Athleticism......Page 191
5. Routh’s Men: Coaching, Research, and the Reform of Public Teaching......Page 242
6. Making Sense of Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in Mid-Victorian Cambridge......Page 301
7. Joseph Larmor, the Electronic Theory of Matter, and the Principle of Relativity......Page 372
8. Transforming the Field: The Cambridge Reception of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity......Page 414
9. Through the Convex Looking Glass: A. S. Eddington and the Cambridge Reception of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity......Page 458
Epilogue: Training, Continuity, and Change......Page 516
Appendix A: Coaching Success, 1865–1909......Page 527
Appendix B: Coaching Lineage, 1865–1909......Page 539
Bibliography......Page 542
Index......Page 564