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LEADER: 02835cam a2200385 i 4500
001 2014012563
003 DLC
005 20150528081821.0
008 140331t20142014riua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014012563
020 $a9781470414696 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020 $a1470414694 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQA10.8$b.W37 2014
082 00 $a510.944/09041$223
084 $a01-02$a01A60$a65-03$a70-03$a97-03$2msc
245 04 $aThe war of guns and mathematics :$bmathematical practices and communities in France and its western allies around World War I /$cDavid Aubin, Catherine Goldstein, editors.
264 1 $aProvidence, Rhode Island :$bAmerican Mathematical Society,$c[2014]
300 $axviii, 391 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aHistory of mathematics ;$vvolume 42
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPlacing 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.
650 0 $aWar and mathematics.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xScience.
650 7 $aHistory and biography -- Research exposition (monographs, survey articles).$2msc
650 7 $aHistory and biography -- History of mathematics and mathematicians -- 20th century.$2msc
650 7 $aNumerical analysis -- Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01).$2msc
650 7 $aMechanics of particles and systems -- Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01).$2msc
650 7 $aMathematics education -- Historical (must also be assigned at least one classification number from Section 01).$2msc
700 1 $aAubin, David,$d1967-
700 1 $aGoldstein, Catherine$c(Mathematician)