Summary Information
At a Glance
Call No.: |
MS#1166 |
Bib ID |
4079344
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Creator(s) |
Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944
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Title |
David Eugene Smith Historical papers, 1400-1899 |
Physical Description |
17.5 linear feet (31 boxes) |
Language(s) |
English
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Access |
This collection is located on-site. This collection has no restrictions. Readers must use photocopies of the Guillaume Libri letters. |
Arrangement
Arrangement
Collection arranged into 2 series.
Description
Summary
Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of mathematicians and other scientists, often dealing with politics and fields other than mathematics. Many of these concern the French Revolution.
Using the Collection
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Restrictions on Access
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Readers must use photocopies of the Guillaume Libri letters.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); David Eugene Smith historical papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Related Archival Materials
Collections related by provenance: Columbia University has the professional papers of David Eugene Smith; Smith documents, 1050-1883 (Primarily French and English financial documents, deeds, indentures, and the like); Smith western manuscripts, 12th cent.-1910; Smith Oriental manuscripts, 8th cent.-early 20th cent.; Smith portraits of mathematicians; Smith collection of books on the history of mathematics, 15th-20th centuries; and Smith mathematical instruments, 1st cent.-20th cent. See also David Eugene Smith Collection of Professional Papers. Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Alternate Form Available
Lalande letters are available on microfilm
Guillaume Libri letters are available in photocopy form
Gaspard Monge letters are available on microfilm
Selected d'Alembert letters are available on microfilm
Selected Isaac Newton letters are available on microfilm
Selected Quetelet letters are available on microfilm
Letters to William John Clarke Miller are available on microfilm
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/1989.
75 letters re. geometry Cataloged HR 07/27/1995.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the
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Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783 |
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Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 |
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Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 |
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Bourlet, C (Carlo), 1866-1913 |
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Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 |
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Brocard, H. (Henri), 1845-1922 |
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Carnot, Lazare, 1753-1823 |
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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 |
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Carvallo, E (Emmanuel), 1856-1945 |
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Casey, John, 1820-1891 |
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Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857 |
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Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794 |
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De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871 |
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650 |
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Euler, Leonhard, 1707-1783 |
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Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867 |
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Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719 |
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 |
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Geometry |
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Gladstone, W. E (William Ewart), 1809-1898 |
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Gohierre de Longchamps, Gaston Albert, 1842- |
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Hadamard, Jacques, 1865-1963 |
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Herschel, John F. W (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 |
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Klein, Felix, 1849-1925 |
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Laisant, C.-A (Charles-Ange), 1841-1920 |
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Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de, 1732-1807 |
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Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827 |
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Laurent, H (Hermann), 1841-1908 |
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716 |
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Libri, Guillaume, 1803-1869 |
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Mackay, J. S (John Sturgeon), 1843-1914 |
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Mannheim, Victor Mayer Amédée, 1831-1906 |
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Marre, Aristide, 1823-1918 |
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Mathematicians |
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Mathematics -- History |
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Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de, 1701-1781 |
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Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879 |
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Milhaud, Gaston, 1858-1918 |
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Monge, Gaspard, 1746-1818 |
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Neuberg, Joseph, 1840-1926 |
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 |
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Ocagne, Maurice d', 1862-1938 |
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Ohm, Martin, 1792-1872 |
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Playfair, Lyon Playfair, Baron, 1818-1898 |
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Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912 |
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Pycroft, George, 1819-1894 |
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Quetelet, Adolphe, 1796-1874 |
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Root, Elihu, 1845-1937 |
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Rosse, William Parsons, Earl of, 1800-1867 |
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Savage, Minot J (Minot Judson), 1841-1918 |
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Schoute, P. H (Pieter Hendrik), 1846-1913 |
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Sheepshanks, R (Richard), 1794-1855 |
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Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838 |
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Trevelyan, Charles E (Charles Edward), 1807-1886 |
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Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723 |
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History / Biographical Note
Biographical note
Mathematician. Professor of mathematics at the State Normal School, Cortland, N.Y., 1884-1891; at Michigan State Normal College, 1891-1898; at New York State Normal School, Brockport, N.Y., 1898-1901; and at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1901-1944. He was the editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, the American Mathematical Monthly, and Scripta Mathematica, a member of the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, 1908-1944; and librarian of Teachers College, 1902-1920. He was the author of Rara Mathematica (1907), The History of Mathematics (1924), and many other works on the history of mathematics as well as over forty mathematical textbooks and numerous journal articles. He also collected manuscript materials relating to the history of mathematics.
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