
Symbols and Things
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Mathematical Work
- Part I. Distributing
- Chapter 1. Textbook in the Marketplace
- Chapter 2. Fences, Diaries, and Mathematical Journals
- Part II. Assembling
- Chapter 3. Cambridge Museological Science and the Making of English Algebra
- Chapter 4. The Mathematician's Library: George Green, George Boole, and Augustus De Morgan
- Part III. Practicing
- Chapter 5. Romantic Space and Imaginary Numbers: Imagining Space through Diagrams
- Chapter 6. William Thomson's Notebooks
- Chapter 7. Kites and Letters: The Peter Guthrie Tait and William Rowan Hamilton Correspondence
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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