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

Part 1. Chapters.- 1. From Bath to Cambridge: The Early Life and Education of Robert Leslie Ellis (Christopher Stray).- 2. "A Senior Wrangler among Senior Wranglers": The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis (June Barrow-Green).- 3. Ellis's Character, John Grote and the Cambridge Network, 1830-1866 (John R. Gibbins).- 4. Robert Leslie Ellis as Editor and Contributor to Mathematical Journals (Tony Crilly).- 5. Ellis on Mathematical Statistics and Probability (Stephen M. Stigler).- 6. Ellis's Philosophy and Bacon Scholarship (Lukas M. Verburgt).- 7. Robert Leslie Ellis: An Almost Perfect Moral Nature (Joan L. Richards).- Part 2. Manuscripts.- 8. The Ellis Papers in Trinity College, Cambridge (Jonathan Smith).- Appendix 1: Bibliography of Ellis's Writings.- Appendix 2: List of Ellis's Mathematical Reading.- Appendix 3: List of Ellis's Diaries.- Bibliography.

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