Duel at Dawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Duel at Dawn write by Amir Alexander. This book was released on 2011-10-15. Duel at Dawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, variste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another. Arguing that not even the purest mathematics can be separated from its cultural background, Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the world. In the eighteenth century, Alexander says, mathematicians were idealized as child-like, eternally curious, and uniquely suited to reveal the hidden harmonies of the world. But in the nineteenth century, brilliant mathematicians like Galois became Romantic heroes like poets, artists, and musicians. The ideal mathematician was now an alienated loner, driven to despondency by an uncomprehending world. A field that had been focused on the natural world now sought to create its own reality. Higher mathematics became a world unto itselfÑpure and governed solely by the laws of reason. In this strikingly original book that takes us from Paris to St. Petersburg, Norway to Transylvania, Alexander introduces us to national heroes and outcasts, innocents, swindlers, and martyrsÐall uncommonly gifted creators of modern mathematics.
Pistols at Dawn
Pistols at Dawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pistols at Dawn write by Richard Hopton. This book was released on 2011. Pistols at Dawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the gross and unjustifiable insults you have offered me both as a soldier and a gentleman, I conclude you must be prepared to give me that satisfaction I am entitled to. I am therefore to request that you will name a place and hour of meeting.' So runs a typical challenge to a duel from the early 19th century; formal, polite - and potentially fatal. Duelling is deeply imbedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and novels; it evokes a golden past, of gentlemen defending their honour (or that of their wives) in the early morning light of a wooded glade; of frockcoats, rapiers and pistols. From the duel's roots in medieval chivalric tournaments, to the unforgiving code of honour in which death was preferable to shame, this fascinating history recounts - with the aid of numerous vivid eye-witness accounts - all the drama and sheer terror of the duel.
Gentlemen's Blood
Gentlemen's Blood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gentlemen's Blood write by Barbara Holland. This book was released on 2008-12-13. Gentlemen's Blood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private, public, and political life, and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for, in fact, they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article, Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable, often gruesome, sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.
Touché
Touché - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touché write by John Leigh. This book was released on 2015-06-08. Touché available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Pistols at Dawn
Pistols at Dawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pistols at Dawn write by Richard Hopton. This book was released on 2007. Pistols at Dawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Duelling is embedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and books. This book traces the history of the duel from its medieval antecedents in trial by combat and chivalric tournaments. Using numerous accounts of actual duels, it shows how the arcane rules of the duel evolved.
