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Contents Acknowledgments ix introduction The Allure of Pure Mathematics in the Victorian Age 1 chapter one Heavenly Symbols: Sources of Victorian Mathematical Idealism 14 chapter two God and Math at Harvard: Benjamin Peirce and the Divinity of Mathematics 42 chapter three George Boole and the Genesis of Symbolic Logic 77 chapter four Augustus De Morgan and the Logic of Relations 106 chapter five Earthly Calculations: Mathematics and Professionalism in the Late Nineteenth Century 137 Notes 183 Bibliography 215 Index 235 This page intentionally left blank ...
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