Mathematics and social utopias in France : Olinde Rodrigues and his times
Simon L. Altmann (Editor), Eduardo L. Ortiz (Editor)
Social reformer, banker, and mathematician, Olinde Rodrigues is a fascinating figure of nineteenth-century Paris. This book offers an account of his family history, education, and important mathematical works. It comprises the interests and associations that make Rodrigues such a remarkable character in the history of mathematics.
Print Book, English, ©2005
American Mathematical Society ; London Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., [London], ©2005
Biographie
xii, 168 s. : illustrations.
9780821838600, 9780821842539, 0821838601, 0821842536
1001693797
Olinde Rodrigues and his times / Simon Altmann, David Siminovitch, and Barrie M. Ratcliffe
Towards a better understanding of Olinde Rodrigues and his circle: family and faith in his life and career / Barrie M. Ratcliffe
Euphrasie and Olinde Rodrigues: the 'woman question' within Saint-Simonism / Paola Ferruta
Rodrigues's early work in mathematics, 1813-1816 / I. Grattan-Guinness
The 1839 paper on perumutations: its relation to the Rodrigues formula and further developments / Richard Askey
Olinde Rodrigues and combinatorics / Ulrich Tamm
Olinde Rodrigues's paper of 1840 on a group of transformations / Jeremy Gray
After Rodrigues: from rotations to quaternions / Eduardo L. Ortiz