Duel At Dawn

Author : Amir Alexander
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780674061743

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Duel at Dawn by Amir Alexander Pdf

In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, ƒvariste 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.

Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Dueling
ISBN : 0749929960

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Pistols at Dawn by Richard Hopton Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307956460

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Duel with the Devil by Paul Collins Pdf

The remarkable true story of a turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued—a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was served—from bestselling author of the Edgar finalist, Murder of the Century. In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic. Waging a fierce battle for its uncertain future were two political parties: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached, their animosity reached a crescendo. But everything changed when a young Quaker woman, Elma Sands, was found dead in Burr's newly constructed Manhattan Well. The horrific crime quickly gripped the nation, and before long accusations settled on one of Elma’s suitors: a handsome young carpenter named Levi Weeks. As the enraged city demanded a noose be draped around his neck, Week's only hope was to hire a legal dream team. And thus it was that New York’s most bitter political rivals and greatest attorneys did the unthinkable—they teamed up. Our nation’s longest running cold case, Duel with the Devil delivers the first substantial break in the case in over 200 years. At once an absorbing legal thriller and an expertly crafted portrait of the United States in the time of the Founding Fathers, Duel with the Devil is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.

Author : John Norris
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780752496597

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Pistols at Dawn by John Norris Pdf

In modern society the thought that someone would organise a deadly competition with a rival, risking his life over a point of honour, is incomprehensible. That this form of resolution would become an accepted 'sport', with noble gentlemen even possessing sets of special duelling pistols, is insane. This fascinating history of the practice of duelling takes the reader into the intriguing world of pistols, 'fields of honour' and mortal combat, a world where complex rules governed a system of dispute which often ended in death. With tales of tragic loss, ridiculous quarrels and often hilarious combat, John Norris takes the reader on a journey of discovery through some of the most dramatic disputes of history.

Author : Richard Hopton
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000122969649

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Pistols at Dawn by Richard Hopton Pdf

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.

Author : John Leigh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674504387

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Touché by John Leigh Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596918092

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Gentlemen's Blood by Barbara Holland Pdf

"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.

Author : Judith St. George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780425288214

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The Duel by Judith St. George Pdf

Learn more about the men who inspired Hamilton: The Musical in this fascinating look at the historical friends turned revolutionary rivals! In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college--one at Princeton, the other at Columbia--and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the newly formed government of the fledgling nation. Why, then, did these two face each other at dawn in a duel that ended with death for one and harsh criticism for the other? Judith St. George's lively biography, told in alternating chapters, brings to life two complex men who played major roles in the formation of the United States.

Author : Kevin Berry
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981120289

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Duel at Dawn by Kevin Berry Pdf

It's 1626 in Paris, France. In the latest You Say Which Way you can choose to be a recruit in the King's Musketeers or the Cardinal's Guards. Now, with one of your friends, you're about to enter this new life, close at hand to the king or the cardinal. There's conspiracy, political intrigue, dueling and more. Will you risk going to the Courtyard of Miracles? What is the cardinal's secret? Is the king ill because he's being poisoned? Where's the best place to buy bandages for sword wounds? Will you make trouble, or will it find you? It's never far away. Oh ... and watch out for thieves, secrets and the compte de Bouteville!

Author : Stephen Banks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747812616

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Duels and Duelling by Stephen Banks Pdf

A duel could result from any challenge to a gentleman's honour, from minor insult to major accusation. At a prearranged time, two men at odds would meet, armed either with swords or pistols, to engage in a formal and sometimes fatal exchange. Gentlemen considered it their prerogative to fight, despite the illegality of duelling, and figures as prominent as the Duke of Wellington and Georges Clemenceau defended their honour in this way. Why did participants flout the law, what codes were followed, what were the changing roles of the seconds, and what were the consequences for victims and victors? Stephen Banks answers these questions and examines the evolution from Norman trials-by-combat to the formalised duel, analysing the custom's decline in England by Victorian times and its final disppearance from Europe by the twentieth century.

Author : Joseph Hamilton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486147949

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The Duelling Handbook, 1829 by Joseph Hamilton Pdf

This 1829 manual offered advice on everything from withdrawal of challenges to weapons. Dramatic anecdotes recount duels arising from disagreements over religion, women, gambling, and other volatile subjects.

Author : Caro Peacock
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007244195

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Death at Dawn by Caro Peacock Pdf

June 1837. She should have remained in the care of her sour aunt in Chalke Bissett, but Liberty Lane was never one to obey instructions. Eager to be reunited with her beloved father, she heads for Dover.

Author : Brittney Morris
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534445420

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SLAY by Brittney Morris Pdf

“Gripping and timely.” —People “The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly “A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that’ll keep you down for the count. Prepare to BE slain.” —Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out Ready Player One meets The Hate U Give in this dynamite debut novel that follows a fierce teen game developer as she battles a real-life troll intent on ruining the Black Panther–inspired video game she created and the safe community it represents for Black gamers. By day, seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. No one knows Kiera is the game developer, not her friends, her family, not even her boyfriend, Malcolm, who believes video games are partially responsible for the “downfall of the Black man.” But when a teen in Kansas City is murdered over a dispute in the SLAY world, news of the game reaches mainstream media, and SLAY is labeled a racist, exclusionist, violent hub for thugs and criminals. Even worse, an anonymous troll infiltrates the game, threatening to sue Kiera for “anti-white discrimination.” Driven to save the only world in which she can be herself, Kiera must preserve her secret identity and harness what it means to be unapologetically Black in a world intimidated by Blackness. But can she protect her game without losing herself in the process?

Author : Peter Townsend
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
ISBN : 0785815686

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Duel of Eagles by Peter Townsend Pdf

Former RAF ace chronicles the growth of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe and their decisive engagements during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Author : Misha Handman,Jess Hartley,Jennifer Lawrence,Matthew McFarland,John Newman,P. Alexander Scokel
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : Changeling (Game)
ISBN : 1588463702

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Swords at Dawn by Misha Handman,Jess Hartley,Jennifer Lawrence,Matthew McFarland,John Newman,P. Alexander Scokel Pdf