David Eugene Smith Historical papers, 1400-1899

Summary Information

At a Glance

Arrangement

Arrangement

Collection arranged into 2 series.

• Series I: Catalogued Correspondents
• Series II: Catalogued Manuscripts and Documents

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.

• Series I: Catalogued Correspondents

• Series II: Catalogued Manuscripts and Documents

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 Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Subject

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.