The Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman
A mathematician from the North Country
Published on 2. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
434 pages
978-1-326-77842-2 (ISBN)
Description
Kirkman's work in the nineteenth century presaged many of the topics in modern Combinatorics. This book is a biography of Kirkman's life and it does not dwell on the technicalities of advanced mathematics, and hopefully it will appeal to the non-mathematician. This biography is the biography of a Victorian polymath active in mathematics, philosophy, as well as his being a social activist with controversial views.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-326-77842-2 (9781326778422)
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There is not a competitor for this biography but a companion would be my Arthur Cayley: Mathematician Laureate of the Victorian Age, Johns Hopkins University Press (2007). This biography takes its place alongside biographies of scientists and mathematicians, in which I have recently been involved. Particularly with (a) A prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859 (Springer 2020), (b) The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel, (Cambridge University Press 2024), and an upcoming biography of William Whewell (1794-1866). Whereas I was an author for the mathematical chapters in these books, I am the sole author in this Kirkman biography.