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Mathematics with Love Mary Stopes-Roe

Mathematics with Love von Mary Stopes-Roe

Mathematics with Love Mary Stopes-Roe

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Zusammenfassung

This evocative snapshot of a twenties courtship offers a surprising insight into the early life of the World War Two hero - Barnes Wallis, and a great way to learn a little mathematics.

Mathematics with Love Zusammenfassung

Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb Mary Stopes-Roe

In 1922 Barnes Wallis FRS, who later invented the transatlantic airship and the bouncing bomb immortalized in the movie The Dam Busters, fell in love for the first and last time - aged 35. The object of his affection, Molly Bloxam, was 17 and setting off to study science at University College London. Her father decreed that the two could correspond only if Barnes taught Molly mathematics in his letters. Mathematics with Love presents, for the first time, the result of this curious diktat: a series of witty, tender and totally accessible introductions to calculus, trigonometry and electrostatic induction that remarkably, wooed and won the girl. Deftly narrated by Barnes and Molly's daughter Mary, Mathematics with Love is an evocative tale of a twenties courtship, a surprising insight into the early life of an engineering genius - and a great way to learn a little mathematics.

Mathematics with Love Bewertungen

"Some may open this book, see pages of formulae and decide to go no further. This would be a great pity - skipping over the mathematics does not detract from the enjoyment of the main story. This is a fitting tribute to a man to whom the world owes a great deal." - Sir Patrick Moore, Times Higher Educational Supplement "In place of poetry and roses, engineer Barnes Wallis wooed his lady-love with trigonometry and calculus - and won her heart. A charming and unique correspondence from the human side of mathematics." - Ian Stewart, author of Math Hysteria and Flatterland "What a lovely book, reminiscent of Nevile Shute's novels. This mixture of maths and suppressed emotion is warm, touching, and rather improbable. Here we meet neither the lovable bumbling genius of Paul Brickhill's book The Dam Busters and Michael Redgrave's portrayal in the film, nor the stubborn and difficult man that Wallis could be at the drawing board, but a third man, a shy, loving teacher prepared to go to tremendous lengths for the girl he falls in love with." - Adam Hart-Davis, author of What The Past Did For Us "The surprise hit of the year so far! I approached this book with trepidation, but found it absolutely delightful." - Brian Clegg, author of Infinity"This delightful book is...a story with many different attractions: the careful depiction of English life in the 1920s; the slowly developing romance between two contrasting but complementary people; the sweet naivete, to our ears, of their writing; and the quality of the mathematics teaching. It must be a unique courtship and one which deeply unites intellect and feeling" - New Humanist"One of the tenderest and most unlikely courtships imaginable.A heartwarming insight into the selfless and truly romantic way that relationships were forged between the wars." - Daily Mail'A lovely, charming book, skilfully and unobtrusively narrated.' - The Mathematical Gazette

Über Mary Stopes-Roe

MARY STOPES-ROE is the daughter of Barnes Wallis and Molly Bloxam. Trained as a historian and psychologist, Mary worked for many years at the University of Birmingham where she studied parent-child interactions within families of Asian and British ethnic origin. Since retirement she has been archiving her family's papers, among which she discovered her parents' courtship letters. Mary and her husband Harry have two sons and two daughters and ten grandchildren.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on the Letters Prologue Beginnings A modern fairytale Count von In The Limit and the Duke of Delta Eks Back in England one year on Airships again Poor old y Real Trig at last! Holidays Stale bread and margarine The end of the stale bread From the sick bed The floodgates opened A measure of normality Love takes the page Two years on: the changing future Mr Bloxham's 'Cure' Problems and rewards Doubts and fears The answer Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR003724045
9781403944986
1403944989
Mathematics with Love: The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb Mary Stopes-Roe
Mary Stopes-Roe
Macmillan Science
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Palgrave USA
2004-12-19
384
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