The Common Sense Of The Exact Sciences by William Kingdon Clifford
A student of Trinity College and a member of the Cambridge Apostles, William Kingdon Clifford (1845 79) graduated as second wrangler in the mathematical tripos, became a professor of applied mathematics at University College London in 1871, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1874. The present work was begun by Clifford during a remarkably productive period of ill health, yet it remained unfinished at his death. The statistician and philosopher of science Karl Pearson (1857 1936) was invited to edit and complete the work, finally publishing it in 1885. It tackles five of the most fundamental areas of mathematics - number, space, quantity, position and motion - explaining each one in the most basic terms, as well as deriving several original results. Also demonstrating the rationale behind these five concepts, the book particularly pleased a later Cambridge mathematician, Bertrand Russell, who read it as a teenager.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781015816015 |
| ISBN 10 | 1015816010 |
| Title | The Common Sense Of The Exact Sciences |
| Author | William Kingdon Clifford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Legare Street Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-27 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
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