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Mathematics

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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Professor Alexander C. Aitken

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1068
Scope and Contents The collections is composed of autobiographical, biographical, memoir, and obituary material relating to Professor A. C. Aitken; war souvenirs and maps; correspondence relating to Aitken's publication From Gallipoli to the Somme; review material relating to From Gallipoli to the Somme; circa 20 photographs, both portrait and group; 3 commonplace (scrap-)books containing cuttings and newspaper articles on a variety of...
Dates: 1894-1980
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor Walter Ledermann

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-667
Identifier: Coll-1064
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937-1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Sir David Pollock

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-377
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of:


Gen. 703-712: notes taken down by Sir David Pollock on lectures on natural history by J. Walker, "Epitome", 1797. 10 manuscript volumes.


Gen. 774-783: 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. 10 manuscript volumes.

Dates: 1796-1798
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of William Wallace, Professor of Mathematics

 Fonds — Bundle Dk.3.40
Identifier: Coll-2177
Scope and Contents

Mathematical notebook containing a system of spherical trigonometry, geometrical problem, etc. by Professor William Wallace. 1790s-1800s. Accompanied by a red, thin volume, containing Wallace's own notes, and letters. Paper watermark 1819. In the volume are loosely inserted, a paper on the separation of the symbols of quantity and operation, and a letter of Prof. Wallace to engineer Thomas Drummond, 30 May 1830.

Dates: 1790s-1830
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Pars Probl: veterum, 28 August 1680

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [96]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's solution to a very ancient problem about parabolae and their asymtotes.

Dates: 28 August 1680
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

'Praelectiones Astronomicae' (excerpt), 07 June 1706

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [49.5]
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 07 June 1706
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Primo designatur..., 1680's

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [196]
Scope and Contents This enormous and varied tranche of material begins as preliminary work, 'Ordo Faciendorum' for the Exercitatio Geometrica, mentioning in particular the work of Canon Sluse, and broadens into a running record of Gregory's thoughts on quadrature, mostly, beginning with a page of 'Desiderata'. Curiosities intervene: a writeup, possibly in the hand of one Robert Morrison, of everything known about the plant substance Nicotine; two more broadsheet cuttings of the mathematical...
Dates: 1680's
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Probl: 13. lib. 3tii Diophanti, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [105]
Scope and Contents

A jotting on Diophantus.

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

Probl: Arith: C. Campbell, s.d.

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [135]
Scope and Contents

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.

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

Probl: Cartesii de Quadrato a J.G., 24 December 1670

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [136]
Scope and Contents

Two pages of correspondence from James Gregory to John Collins.

Dates: 24 December 1670
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C