Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Methodus reducandi Quadraturas omnium figurarum ad Quadraturam Parabola, 1688
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [95]
Scope and Contents
A development of one of Barrow's theorems.
Dates:
1688
Methodus tangentium Slusii illustrata a Burchero de Volder, 1691
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [81]
Scope and Contents
An exposition of Sluse's general algorithm that allowed one to pass from an equation to its curve to its subtangent. Marginalia in Gregory's hand.
Dates:
1691
Methodus universalis pro inveniendis tangentibus ... hyperbolarum et ellipsium, 2 November 1680
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [120]
Scope and Contents
A general proposition from Gregory's Edinburgh tenure.
Dates:
2 November 1680
Minus percepta in Neutoni libro, 1695
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [58]
Scope and Contents
Corrigenda.
Dates:
1695
Movement and Reciprocity in Geometric figures, c1951
File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/5
Scope and Contents
Set of lecture notes titled G, regarding Spearman's Theory of Two Factors in relation to mathematical ability, with illustrative diagrams. The other set of notes relates to this, with further illustrative diagrams including the 9 point circle, and a graph regarding both Scottish Mental Surveys. These are mostly written on the back of minutes from the British Psychological Society business for council meeting, 1951, and minutes...
Dates:
c1951
Mr Collins's account of some Math: Works cast in print, after 1683
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [118]
Scope and Contents
An exhortation from a publisher for the learned community to step forward and assist with a printing of some of John Collins's more obscure works on mathematics.
Dates:
after 1683
Mr Tschirnhaus de tangentibus, c1690
Item
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
Mr W. Campbel de Conclioide &c, s.d.
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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [185]
Scope and Contents
A letter, addressed to a clergyman named Mr William Campbell (to, not from, as Gregory's index note has it), in an unknown and difficult hand, possibly concerning cycloids.
Dates:
s.d.
Mr Whistons mistakes in his new theory, 3 April 1698
Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [45]
Scope and Contents
A short critique of William Whiston's A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original to the Consummation of all Things, (1696) , intended to damn Cartesian astronomy and advance corollaries to Newtonian thought instead. He affirmed the truth of the flood narrative in Genesis, ascribing the deluge to the impact of a comet. Whiston had been converted to Newtonianism by a paper of David Gregory. At the foot of this document is an unrelated note, dated 6 Sept. 1708, to...
Dates:
3 April 1698