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Mathematics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

An abstract of Schurnhaus Letter, c1690

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [28]
Scope and Contents

An abstract of 1676 correspondence to a colleague from Tchurnhaus, on radicals in equations.

Dates: c1690

De problematibus arithmeticis et geometricis in generali consideratis et horum Historia, s.d.

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [91]
Scope and Contents

A short treatise on some of the recent evolution in maths.

Dates: s.d.

D.T. Nova methodus determinandi Maxima et Minima, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [32]
Scope and Contents

Hand-copy of an article (Act. Eruditorum Lipsiae, Mar. 1683) by Tschirnhaus, on maxima and minima. The hand may not be Gregory's.

Dates: c1690

Ex Tschurnhausii Theoremate et Methodo Deducitur Canon meus, 1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [207]
Scope and Contents

A 11-page tranche of workpapers in which Gregory derives his own conclusions from the work of Tchirnhausen.

Dates: 1688

Folio C, c1680-c1708

 Series — Volume Dc.1.61: Series Coll-33/Folio C
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: These are mostly handwritten items, bound together as a volume, though with some loose insertions of manuscripts which had strayed, some of them with modern annotations concerning their provenance. Their scope and content is as David Gregory indexed them, save for the missing items, which consist of two dozen papers and letters on general physics and maths, and...
Dates: c1680-c1708

Index Chartarum in M.S. C. in folio, 1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [index]
Scope and Contents

An index, in Gregory's hand, to the material he designated as Folio C.

Dates: 1700

Inventio Canonis quo facillime ex quaratico Tschurnhausii determinatur quadranda, c1688

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [209]
Scope and Contents

Gregory learns more quadrature from Tchirnhausen.

Dates: c1688

Methodus Jacobi Fenton de Quadraturis, c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [203]
Scope and Contents

Fenton on quadrature, with a passing reference to Tchirnhausen, in Gregory's hand.

Dates: c1696

Mr Tschirnhaus de tangentibus, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [31]
Scope and Contents

Tschirnhaus on tangents.

Dates: c1690

Mr Tschirnhaus's Rules for Equations, c1690

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [29]
Scope and Contents

Tschirnhaus on algebra, in Gregory's hand.

Dates: c1690