David Eugene Smith Professional papers, 1860-1945

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Series V: Manuscripts by D.E. Smith



Box 69 Adam


Box 69 Adrain, Robert-DAB


Box 69 Al-Biruni's computation of the value of . By Carl Schoy ...


Box 69 Algebra of four thousand years ago


Box 69 Among my autographs


Box 69 The angelus


Box 69 The arithmetic of our day


Box 69 Baeda Venerabilis, 672-735


Box 69 Bibliography on math.


Box 69 Bibliotheca Columbiana


Box 69 Biographical notes relating to Gaspard Monge



Box 70 Book reviews, 1892-1939 & undated, 1892-1939, undated



Box 71 Budget of paradoxes. By August us de Morgan


Box 71 Cajori, Florian-obituary


Box 71 The call of mathematics. & The poetry of mathematics


Box 71 Carus, Mary Hegeler-obituary


Box 71 Catalogue of letters & documents purchased in, June -August 1924


Box 71 Cathedra gastronomica



Box 72 Certain topics for investigation in the history of mathematics


Box 72 Challanging problems in American schools of education


Box 72 Changes in elementary mathematical terms in the last 3 centuries


Box 72 Chaucer


Box 72 Chinese mathematics


Box 72 Christmas carol ..., 1932


Box 72 Class roll books-7 vols.


Box 72 Cole, Frank Nelson-DAB


Box 72 Commonplace book., ca. 1880


Box 72 Le comput manuel de Magister Anianus


Box 72 Connecting arithmetic with the children's everyday experiences


Box 72 The contribution of mathematics to civilization


Box 72 Countries visited


Box 72 Craig, Thomas-DAB


Box 72 Credo mathematici


Box 72 Curious values of ff.



Box 73 David Dunham stories



Box 74 The David Eugene Smith gift of historical-mathematical instruments to Columbia University


Box 74 DeForest, Erastus Lyman-DAB


Box 74 De Morte (.1882).


Box 74 Descarte's La geometrie, trans.by D.E.Smith & Marcia L. Latham


Box 74 The development of the geometry textbook


Box 74 Diaries-1871-1933


Box 74 Discours sur la philosophie prononce par D'Alembert le 3 decembre, 1768


Box 74 Does the teacher's knowledge of a subject differ from that of a scholar?


Box 74 The dust numerals among the eastern Arabs


Box 74 Early American mathematics


Box 74 Early American mathematical periodicals


Box 74 The early contributions of Carl Schoy


Box 74 D M the Arabs invent the decimal fraction?


Box 74 A dream of Thanksgiving


Encyclopedia Britannica articles:



Box 75 A-G



Box 76 H-W



Box 77 3x5 cards



Box 78 Esthetics and mathematics


Box 78 Euclid, Omar Khayyam, and Saccheri


Box 78 Experience and impressions


Box 78 Farrar, John-DAB


Box 78 FirdausI celebration


Box 78 The first great commercial arithmetic


Box 78 The fisherman sees ...


Box 78 The Ganita-Sara-Sangraha of Mahaviracarya


Box 78 Gaspard Monge, politician


Box 78 A general survey of the progress of mathematics in our high schools ...


Box 78 Genesis


Box 78 A geometric "bedlam


Box 78 Geometry. By D.E.Smith & Wentworth


Box 78 The geometry of the Hindus


Box 78 A glimpse at early Colonial algebra


Box 78 The Gobi Desert


Box 78 Going to Persia?


Box 78 The great problem


Box 78 The great treasurehouse of Chinese and European mathematics. By Louis Vanhee.


Box 78 Greece, the birthplace of mathematical thought


Box 78 A Greek multiplication table


Box 78 Greenwood, Isaac-DAB


Box 78 Halsted, George Bruce-DAB


Box 78 Harkness, James-DAB (?)


Box 78 Harrangguel; an awful tale


Box 78 Heath's Euclid


Box 78 Hendricks, Joel E.-DAB (?)


Box 78 Historical-Mathematical Paris


Box 78 The Hindu-Arabic numerals



Box 79 A history of Japanese mathematics



Box 80 History of mathematical recreations


Box 80 History of mathematics (l)



Box 81 History of mathematics (2)



Box 82 A history of mathematics in America before 1900 (l), 1900



Box 83 A history of mathematics in America before 1900 (2), 1900


Box 83 History of modern mathematics


Box 83 History of science society-memoranda, minutes, etc.


Box 83 Hobby riding in Paris


Box 83 How mathematics is needed or used by the average citizen who. consults an encyclopedia


Box 83 How May the teaching of mathematics be made more efficient


Box 83 How the native Japanese mathematics is considered in the West


Box 83 In His own image


Box 83 In the surnamed chosen chest


Box 83 Influence of Persia on American culture


Box 83 Influence of Renaissance


Box 83 The influence of the mathematical works of the 15th cent, upon those of the l6th cent.


Box 83 Institute for the study of the history of science



Box 84 International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics-memoranda, notes, etc.


Box 84 The International Congress of Mathematicians ..., 1932


Box 84 International understanding through mathematics


Box 84 An interesting piece of Americana mathematica


Box 84 Intuition and experiment in mathematical teaching in the secondary schools


Box 84 Jackson, Abraham V.W.-obituary


Box 84 Jewish contributions to mathematics in the Middle Ages


Box 84 John Wallis as a cryptographer


Box 84 Johnson, William Woolsey-DAB


Box 84 Joint report on Mr. Sukumar Ranjan Dasgupta's thesis,.. the Univ. of Calcutta.



Box 85 Kaye, George Rusky ­ obituary for Science


Box 85 Laplace


Box 85 The larger questions in the teaching of fractions


Box 85 The law of exponents in the works of the l6th century


Box 85 Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot


Box 85 Lectures & addresses: 1924-1938 & undated, 1924-1938, undated


Box 85 Lecture notes: 1887 & undated, 1887, undated


Box 85 Loomis, Elias ­ DAB Lemoine, Emile Michel Hyacnthe


Box 85 List of books, essays, and reviews written by David Eugene Smith



Box 86 McClintock, Emory ­ DAB


Box 86 Mansions of mud


Box 86 Manuscripts of the Bible and of documents relating to it


Box 86 Manuscript translations of Euclid's Geometry


Box 86 Maschke, Heinrich ­ DAB


Box 86 Mathematica Gothica


Box 86 The Mathematical Association of America


Box 86 Mathematical contemporaries of Rene Descartes, 1596-1650


Box 86 A mathematical exhibit of interest to teachers


Box 86 Mathematical giants and non-giants


Box 86 Mathematical ideals of the J-H-S


Box 86 Mathematical portraits and pages


Box 86 The mark, master masons of Ispahan. By Helen Jewett



Box 87 Mathematical recreations



Box 88 Mathematical tables. Smith & Carson


Box 88 The mathematical tablets of Nippur


Box 88 Mathematical terms of olden times


Box 88 Mathematics and religion


Box 88 The mathematics of Bacon's time


Box 88 Me family tree


Box 88 Medicine and mathematics in the l6th century


Box 88 Memoria in aeterna


Box 88 Memories of Hot Wassah


Box 88 Methods of teaching the history of mathematics


Box 88 Mimari, Mamoru-obituary


Box 88 Mirabilia mathematica


Box 88 Moore, Eliakin Hastings -- obituary


Box 88 Moritz Cantor


Box 88 Motives for study


Box 88 Mystery of numbers


Box 88 The National Committee on Mathematical Requirements-memoranda, etc.


Box 88 Newton, Hubert Anson -- DAB


Box 88 Note on a Greek papyrus


Box 88 A note on Johannes Schonerus


Box 88 A note on Thomas Jefferson


Notes on:



Box 89 abacus-finger reckoning


Box 89 addition and subtraction


Box 89 algebra


Box 89 algebra from 1500 to 1650-the cubic and quartic, 1500


Box 89 algebra-algebraic symbols


Box 89 algebra-Hundu algebra


Box 89 algebra-Medieval European algebra


Box 89 algebra-rule of false position


Box 89 algebra-rule of three


Box 89 algebra -- series


Box 89 arithmetic-prehistoric arithmetic


Box 89 arithmetic-13th & l4th centuries



Box 90 arithmetic-l6th century


Box 90 arithmetic-1700-1850


Box 90 arithmetic-Babylon


Box 90 arithmetic-China-Japan


Box 90 arithmetic-England, 1500-1700


Box 90 arithmetic-Egypt


Box 90 arithmetic-German arithmetic, 15th & l6th centuries


Box 90 arithmetic-Greece


Box 90 arithmetic-Hindu-Arab


Box 90 arithmetic-Medieval


Box 90 arithmetic-Minor countries, 1500-1700


Box 90 arithmetic-Netherlands, 1500-1700


Box 90 arithmetic-Rome


Box 90 arithmetics from 1478 to 1602, 1478, 1602



Box 91 bibliography of history of mathematics


Box 91 biographies


Box 91 business applications


Box 91 calculus


Box 91 checks on computations


Box 91 China


Box 91 classification of numbers


Box 91 common fractions


Box 91 commercial life as revealed by arithmetic


Box 91 the computus


Box 91 dice


Box 91 division


Box 91 the dollar sign


Box 91 fundamental operations-numeration of large nos.



Box 92 history of geometry


Box 92 history of trigonometry


Box 92 logarithms


Box 92 math, letters


Box 92 measures


Box 92 metric system


Box 92 multiplication


Box 92 Napier Celebration-24 July 19l4


Box 92 Oriental numerals


Box 92 Pacidi


Box 92 practice


Box 92 the seven liberal arts-the names given to arith.


Box 92 sexagesimal fractions


Box 92 square roots


Box 92 Misc.



Box 93 A noteworthy Chaucerian manuscript


Box 93 Number stories


Box 93 Numbers and numerals; a story book for young and old



Box 94 Ode to Madame l'Abbess


Box 94 Qkamoto, N.-obituary


Box 94 On a remarkable contribution to the history of mathematics


Box 94 On mu facsimile of the D'Alembert Address


Box 94 On teaching mathematics


Box 94 On the course of the history of mathematics in the Michigan State Normal College


Box 94 On the genealogy of modern numerals


Box 94 On the origin of certain typical problems


Box 94 On the origin of the term "root"


Box 94 An opportunity for textual criticism in the history of Chinese mathematics


Box 94 The origin of the term "root" in Chinese mathematics


Box 94 Our debt to Greece and Rome


Box 94 Outline of a proposed history of the Sacrobosco Products Co.



Box 95 The palace walls of Tus


Box 95 Pelseneer on mathematical thought


Box 95 Pictorial material relating to Euclid


Box 95 The place of Roger Bacon in the history of mathematics


Box 95 Plane trigonometry


Box 95 The play of imagination in geometry


Box 95 The poetry of mathematics and other essays


Box 95 Portfolio of mathematicians


Box 95 The portrait medals of Newton


Box 95 The portraits of Sir Isaac Newton


Box 95 Possible boundaries in the early history of mathematics



Box 96 Primer for Grade II


Box 96 The problem of the book


Box 96 Problem solving in algebra


Box 96 Protective geometry


Box 96 Quo vadis, o scientia


Box 96 Professor Smith's literary activities. By Jekuthiel Ginsburg



Box 97 Rara arithmetica (& addenda)


Box 97 The reasons


Box 97 The recent progress of standard time


Box 97 The relation of music to mathematics


Box 97 Religio mathematici


Box 97 A report on applied problems in arithmetic


Box 97 The resting places of certain mathematicians



Box 98 Retrospect


Box 98 Retrospect, introspect, prospect


Box 98 Roman numerals


Box 98 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám-mss.



Box 99 The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám-proofs & printed



Box 100 Runkle, John Daniel-DAB


Box 100 The sciences are an integral part of general historical study


Box 100 The Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology


Box 100 A simple cross-word puzzle ...


Box 100 Sir Thomas Little Heath


Box 100 Solid geometry


Box 100 The soul of mathematics


Box 100 A source book in mathematics-mss. (l)



Box 101 A source book in mathematics-mss. (2)



Box 102 A source book in mathematics-proofs (3)



Box 103 The spelling of certain mathematical names


Box 103 The story of mathematics


Box 103 Stringham, Washington Irving-DAB


Box 103 The stuff that dreams are made of


Box 103 The stupor of measurement


Box 103 The Sumario compendioso of Juan Diez


Box 103 The surnamed chosen chest


Box 103 Sylvester, James Joseph-DAB


Box 103 System lampades mathematicae



Box 104 The teaching of arithmetic


Box 104 The teaching of elementary mathematics


Box 104 Teaching of geometry


Box 104 The teaching of mathematics in the secondary schools of the United States


Box 104 The teaching of the history of science


Box 104 Texts and tests in elementary algebra



Box 105 Thomas Jefferson and mathematics


Box 105 To Fanny Morton


Box 105 To some good friends of mine, with the season's greeting


Box 105 Topics in the tropics letters to the Cortland Democrat etc.


Box 105 The Treviso Arithmetic, 1478 Arte d'ell'abbaco; Goff A1141, 1478


Box 105 The two orphans of Marrakech


Box 105 Two unpublished documents of Sir Isaac Newton


Box 105 Unsettled questions concerning the mathematics of China


Box 105 Vignettes of travel


Box 105 Vita Juventus, Fervor, Mors



Box 106 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 107 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 108 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 109 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 110 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 111 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 112 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 113 Weights & measures. Notes for a proposed "Bibliotheca metrological" (on the plan of his "Rara arithmetica"), 1926-1927. Nor published



Box 114 Williams, Roland H. -- obituary


Box 114 Wisdom of …


Box 114 The wonderful eyes of math


Box 114 The wonderful wonders of A-B-C


Box 114 The wonderful wonders of dreams that are wonderful


Box 114 The wonderful wonders of inches and ounces, and liters and acres …


Box 114 The wonderful wonders of one-two-three


Box 114 The wonderful wonders of pounds-feet-quarts-pints …



Boxes 115 Miscellaneous manuscripts



Boxes 116 Miscellaneous manuscripts



Boxes 117 Miscellaneous manuscripts



Box 118 Index of names for a 4 volume work (3x5 cards)