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Mathematics and Social Utopias in France: Olinde Rodrigues and His Times
About this Title
Simon Altmann, Brasenose College, Oxford University, England and Eduardo L. Ortiz, Imperial College, London, England, Editors
Publication: History of Mathematics
Publication Year:
2005; Volume 28
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4253-9 (print); 978-1-4704-3896-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/028
MathSciNet review: MR2210052
MSC: Primary 01A55; Secondary 01-06
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Introduction
- Olinde Rodrigues and his times
- Towards a better understanding of Olinde Rodrigues and his circle: Family and faith in his life and career
- Euphrasie and Olinde Rodrigues: The ’woman question’ within Saint-Simonism
- Rodrigues’s early work in mathematics, 1813–1816
- The 1839 paper on permutations: Its relation to the Rodrigues formula and further developments
- Olinde Rodrigues and combinatorics
- Olinde Rodrigues’s paper of 1840 on a group of transformations
- After Rodrigues: From rotations to quaternions