A Prodigy of Universal Genius : : Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859.

• Superior document: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Series ; v.55
• Author: Verburgt, Lukas M.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (459 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Acknowledgments and Permissions
• Introduction
• Robert Leslie Ellis: Life and Work
• Structure of the Book
• Contents
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures
• Part I: Chapters
• Chapter 1: From Bath to Cambridge: The Early Life and Education of Robert Leslie Ellis
• 1.1 Classical Tuition
• 1.2 The World of the Bath Literati
• 1.3 Ellis the Diarist
• 1.4 Ellis at Cambridge
• 1.5 Conclusion
• Chapter 2: "A Senior Wrangler Among Senior Wranglers": The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Thomas Stephens Davies (c.1794-1851)
• 2.3 Ellis's Mathematical Development (1827-1834)
• 2.4 Cambridge, 1836-1840
• 2.4.1 Tuition
• 2.4.2 Coaching
• 2.5 Examinations
• Chapter 3: Ellis's Character, John Grote and the Cambridge Network
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Obituarising the Man
• 3.3 Approaching Knowledge
• 3.4 The Making of the Man
• 3.5 Character: The Man as Made
• 3.6 Ellis and the Rising Tide of Doubt
• 3.7 'A Galaxy of Great Men': The Cambridge Network
• 3.8 Conclusion
• Chapter 4: Robert Leslie Ellis as Editor and Contributor to Mathematical Journals
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 The Undergraduate
• 4.3 The Cambridge Mathematical Journal
• 4.3.1 Ellis's Juvenilia
• 4.3.2 Algebra and Geometry
• 4.3.3 Differential Equations and Multiple Integrals
• 4.3.4 Editorship
• 4.4 The British Association, and After
• 4.4.1 Ellis's Report on Analysis
• 4.5 Epilogue
• Chapter 5: Ellis on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
• 5.1 Ellis and Least Squares in 1844
• 5.2 Ellis and the Foundations of Probability in 1842
• 5.3 Back to Least Squares in 1850
• 5.4 Ellis and Mathematical Statistics
• Chapter 6: Ellis's Philosophy and Bacon Scholarship
• 6.1 Origins: Whewell and the Trinity Circle
• 6.2 Philosophy at Bath, 1834-1836
• 6.3 Philosophy at Cambridge, 1836-1840.
• 6.4 Ellis's Philosophy in the 1840s-50s
• Chapter 7: Robert Leslie Ellis: An Almost Perfect Moral Nature
• 7.1 The Transcendence of Mathematical Knowing
• 7.2 Maintaining Transcendence Through History
• 7.3 Defending Transcendent Truth
• 7.4 Conclusion
• Part II: Manuscripts
• Chapter 8: Ellis's Papers in Trinity College, Cambridge
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Provenance and Archival History
• 8.3 The Diaries
• 8.4 Correspondence
• 8.5 Notebooks and Miscellaneous Notes
• 8.6 Concluding Remarks
• Diaries
• Note to the Reader
• Selected Diaries
• Letters
• Note to the Reader
• List of Selected Letters
• Selected letters
• Appendices
• Appendix 1: Bibliography of Ellis's Writings
• Mathematics
• Philosophy
• Miscellaneous
• Appendix 2: Chronological List of Ellis's Mathematical Reading
• Appendix 3: Chronological List of Ellis's Diaries
• General Bibliography
• Index.