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Mathematics

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Found in 215 Collections and/or Records:

Jac: Gregorius De Maximis et Minimis, c1660-1675

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [150]
Scope and Contents

Thoughts on graphing certain functions, proceeding from earlier notes on Hudde. These are in the form of a letter (without address or name).

Dates: c1660-1675
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C
Or Ms 474: Mathematical Exercises, unpaginated [Please click twice to access a higher quality photograph]
Or Ms 474: Mathematical Exercises, unpagin...

Jagat-kautuk Kalpavali (The Wishfulfillment Vine of World-curiosities) Sanskrit Mathematical Exercises, c.1821 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 474
Scope and Contents This is a printed compendium of mathematical puzzles in Sanskrit with monochrome illustrations. The title is given on the cover as "Juggut Coutook, Culpwallee." The format of the book is modelled on the metaphorical idea of kalpavali, the divine creeper in Sanskrit literature, that is associated with wish fulfillment.There are large blank areas on each page, most of which have been filled in with neatly handwritten English translations,...
Dates: c.1821 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

James Gregory on mathematics, c1692

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [017]
Scope and Contents

An essay on mathematics and scientific enquiry by James Gregory, younger brother of David Gregory.

Dates: c1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Jo: Craig: specimen method: quadratura..., 1680's

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [199]
Scope and Contents

How John Craige dealt with a particular case of integration.

Dates: 1680's
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Jo: Craige supplementii ad suam Methodum, in Epist: Auct: ad Colin Campbellum, c1696

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [202]
Scope and Contents

Extract of a letter from Craige to Colin Campbell explaining a method of quadrature.

Dates: c1696
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Jo: Keil Scheda de figura Radij in Medio difformi, 1684-1700

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [30]
Scope and Contents A logarithmic treatment of light propagating through a uniform medium. John Keill was an Edinburgh native who earned distinction under David Gregory in mathematics and natural philosophy there, and who followed him to Oxford in 1691, where, like Gregory, he made a name for himself as an enthusiastic vindicator of Sir Isaac Newton. At Balliol College he demonstrated by experiments the validity of some of the chief propositions of Newton concerning light and colour, among other things. Oddly,...
Dates: 1684-1700
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Large ledger-type notebook, c. 1936

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.27
Scope and Contents

Large ledger-type notebook. The notebook contains notes on mathematics, some labelled 'Lecture II', etc., perhaps for lectures at Cambridge, c. 1936.

Dates: c. 1936
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Lectures by David Gregory

 Fonds — Volume Dc.6.12
Identifier: Coll-1608
Scope and Contents Volume consists of teaching material originally produced by David Gregory, here transcribed with numerous drawings by Francis Pringle in Oxford in 1694-1695 and George Wood in St Andrews 1705. The volume's index is in Gregory's hand. The lectures, all by Gregory, are the Institutiones Astronomiae, the Oxford address on professional education he called De Ratione Studii Mathematici Consilium, the Lectiones Opticae, Trigonometria Planorum Angulorum, Geometria Practica, Geometriae de Motu, and...
Dates: c1694-c1705
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Professor George Chrystal, 17 June 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/61
Scope and Contents

Chrystal outlines some ideas for subjects that could be taught in the proposed mathematical department at Edinburgh University, and how many professors, lecturers and assistants he might recommend.

Dates: 17 June 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from [H. B. W], 31 January 1921

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1993
Scope and Contents

Letter, 31 January 1921, [H. B. W] to Donald Tovey. Discussing teaching of a young boy in maths and music. Holograph signed.

Dates: 31 January 1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence