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Mathematics

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Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Colin Campbell Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-38
Scope and Contents The Colin Campbell Collection contains Gaelic verse, mainly songs; sermon notes and scripture expositions, the earliest being 1703; manuscript treatises; Colin Campbell correspondence, the earliest being 1664; miscellaneous manuscripts including domestic accounts, medical papers, minutes etc; notebooks, accounts, letters and scraps of Patrick Campbell of Achnaba; letters from mathematicians to Colin Campbell, and mathematical papers; a body of accounts, the earliest being 1553; a body of...
Dates: 1553-1836
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Commentarius in D.G. Quadrature: in D.P. Probl: de inventoribus, June 1692

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [198]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's further commentary on the problem laid out for him (and John Young) in 1688.

Dates: June 1692
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Commentary on 'De Sphaera'

 Fonds — Volume Dk.7.29
Identifier: Coll-1947
Scope and Contents

Volume entitled Buchananus De Sphaera: George Buchanan, with commentary by Adam King, covering key aspects of mathematical, natural philosophical, and astronomical knowledge from antiquity to the early modern period, from the Christian West and the Islamicate and pre-Islamic East, and from Copernicus to Galileo and Kepler. Bound with this is a second manuscript containing poetry by King.

Dates: c1616
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Compiled notes on mathematics and statistics, c1930s

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/3/2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:
  1. Lecture manuscripts, c1910s-1954;
  2. Unpublished volume, c1930;
  3. Notes taken by Thomson, c1930s-1951;
  4. Bibliographies compiled by Thomson, 1897-1954.
Dates: c1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Unpublished materials authored by Thomson / Notes taken by Thomson regarding various publications and subjects including education, statistics, and mathematics

Conamen ad quadrandum trinomium, c1688

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [213]
Scope and Contents

A quadrature effort for trinomials.

Dates: c1688
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Contactus & Tetragonismus, 29 January 1704

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [174(2)]
Scope and Contents

A planning document for a general textbook on the calculus.

Dates: 29 January 1704
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Contenta in supplemento Analytico N. Hanbury Cantabrigiensis, 1691

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [173]
Scope and Contents

Gregory's reading notes in algebra.

Dates: 1691
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Correctio numerorum...Algebrae D. Wallisii, 17 July 1697

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [90]
Scope and Contents

Correctgions for chapter 109, page 470, in a forthcoming edition of Wallis's Algebra, which was meant to contain material of Gregory's.

Dates: 17 July 1697
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Correspondence, 1970-1971

 File
Identifier: Coll-1586/L/L.252
Scope and Content

The material consists of correspondence between Bernard Meltzer and Martin Rivers Pollock, dated 1970-1971. It includes correspondence and papers on the method of investigation in mathematics and natural science.

Dates: 1970-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Martin Rivers Pollock / SECTION L: CORRESPONDENCE / Meltzer, B.

Correspondence between Dr. Ian M. L. Hunter and Prof. Alexander C. Aitken

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1235
Scope and Contents The correspondence is composed of:- E97.57 - a collection of letters (11), typescript and manuscript, and some notes on calculations, relating to investigations into Aitken's abilities as a mental calculator, dating from 6 December 1960 to 7 December 1961, from Aitken (on either paper headed with Mathematical Institute, Chambers Street, Edinburgh; or, private address on Primrosebank Road, Edinburgh) to Hunter (Department of Psychology). E97.58 - a collection of...
Dates: 1960-1978
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections