Mathematics
Found in 212 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Professor Walter Ledermann
The collection largely consists of letters from Godfrey Thomson to Ledermann. Many are highly mathematical in content, containing formulae and mathematical notation, though they also regard social events and contain enquiries from Thomson with regards to the safety of Ledermann's family throughout the war.
Papers of Sir David Pollock
The papers consist of elements of mathematics containing the first six books of Euclid, and lectures on logic by Professor J. Finlayson, taken down by Pollock in 1796-1797, and observations on medical jurisprudence delivered in lectures by Professor A. Duncan, 1797-1798.
Pars Probl: veterum, 28 August 1680
Gregory's solution to a very ancient problem about parabolae and their asymtotes.
'Praelectiones Astronomicae' (excerpt), 07 June 1706
A critique of the Keplerian ellipse from William Whiston's Praelectiones, (1707), which were also published in English in 1715 and 1728. Gregory's handwritten note at the bottom suggests that he or Sir Edmund Halley helped with corrections.
Primo designatur..., 1680's
Probl: 13. lib. 3tii Diophanti, s.d.
A jotting on Diophantus.
Probl: Arith: C. Campbell, s.d.
Notes on parabolae from Colin Campbell 'of Ardhattan', possibly in his hand, and another page of commentary and calculation, possibly in the hand of James Gregory. There follow 3 more pages of scattered rumination on hyperbolae and ellipses in David's hand.
Probl: Cartesii de Quadrato a J.G., 24 December 1670
Two pages of correspondence from James Gregory to John Collins.
Probl: de Circulo, s.d.
A paragraph proposing a problem concerning the area and parts of a divided circle. This item is out of sequence, glued to the back of C 94.
Probl: impossibile de max: et min., c1696
A quandary, attributed to no one, but on paleographic grounds probably coeval with item 5 in Folio C.