Paris and the New Mathematics

Synopsis: During the French Revolution the new republic saw mathematics as a tool to be used in its service. Describes some of the revolutionary mathematics and the developments that were to arise from it. Centres around the the life of one of France’s greatest revolutionary mathematicians, Gaspard Monge, who was to found the École Polytechnique, originally to train military engineers. It was there that post-revolutionary mathematicians trained and did their research. Looks at the library of the present-day École Polytechnique and the early 19th-century books and papers which chronicle this period of French educational reform.
Series: Topics in the History of Mathematics, Course Ma290
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1986
Availability: Out of distribution
Subjects: Mathematics
Keywords: France; history of mathematics; history of science; Monge, Gaspard

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