Such silver currents : the story of William and Lucy Clifford, 1845-1929 /
During his short life William Clifford became renowned not only as a leading mathematician, but also for his philosophy. The author has researched the lives of both Clifford and his wife Lucy Lane, who was a journalist and novelist.
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Bristol :
Lutterworth Press, The,
2021.
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1pdrr4p |
Агуулга:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Sir Michael Atiyah, O.M., F.R.S.
- Introduction: Setting the Scene
- Part One: 1845-1875
- Lucy's Early Years 1846-1875
- William's Childhood in Exeter 1845-1863
- The Cambridge Years 1863-1871
- 'The Great Scientifi c Missionary': University College, London 1871-1875
- Life in London: Friendship with George Eliot and George Lewes
- William's Death in Madeira 1879
- Part II: Lucy Alone, 1879-1929
- Beginning Again
- Friendship with Rudyard Kipling
- Literary Critic and Hostess
- Friendship with William and Henry James
- Trans-Atlantic Friendships: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and J.R. Lowell
- Bloomsbury Connections: Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf
- London Friends at the Turn of the Century
- Part Three Heritage: Literary and Scientifi c
- Lucy Clifford's Books and Plays
- The Clifford Heritage
- Afterword The Mathematics of William Kingdon Clifford
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover