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The war of guns and mathematics [electronic resource] : mathematical practices and communities in France and its western allies around World War I / David Aubin, Catherine Goldstein, editors

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Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, [2014]
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xviii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Additional Creators:
Aubin, David, 1967- and Goldstein, Catherine (Mathematician)
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Contents:
Placing World War I in the History of Mathematics / David Aubin and Catherine Goldstein -- Part I: Starting Up. Cambridge Mathematicians' Responses to the First World War / June Barrow-Green -- The Total War of Paris Mathematicians / David Aubin, Hââeláene Gispert, and Catherine Goldstein -- Part II: Joining In. Italian Mathematicians and the First World War : Intellectual Debates and Institutional Innovations / Pietro Nastasi and Rossana Tazzioli -- A Mobilized Community : Mathematicians in the United States during the First World War / Thomas Archibald, Della Dumbaugh, and Deborah Kent -- Part III: Moving On. Debating the Place of Mathematics at the âEcole polytechnique around World War I / Jean-Luc Chabert and Christian Gilain -- "I'm Just a Mathematician" : Why and How Mathematicians Collaborated with Military Ballisticians at ãGavre / David Aubin -- Why Aerodynamics Failed to Take off in Nancy : An Unexpected Casualty of World War I / Laurent Rollet and Philippe Nabonnand.
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ISBN:
9781470414696 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
1470414694 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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