David Eugene Smith Professional papers, 1860-1945
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1167
- Bib ID:
- 4079345 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 139 boxes (139 boxes 4 flat boxes 1 tube box)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located on-site.
Tube box 11 is: located off-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Professional and personal papers of Smith, including correspondence and manuscripts from his students, family, contemporary mathematicians and teaching colleagues about the history and teaching of mathematics, his many committees, administrative matters at Teachers College, and his travels and collecting. Also, the manuscripts of his writings and his notes.
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Series III: Manuscripts (not by D.E. Smith) and documents; cataloged
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Series IV: Manuscripts (not by D.E. Smith) and documents; not cataloged
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in 6 series.
- Series I: Cataloged Correspondence
- Series II: Miscellaneous Correspondence
- Series III: Manuscripts (not by D.E. Smith) and documents; cataloged
- Series IV: Manuscripts (not by D.E. Smith) and documents; not cataloged
- Series V: Manuscripts by D.E. Smith
- Series VI:Memorabilia, Photographs, Books, Ephemera
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located on-site.
Tube box 11 is: located off-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions 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 professional papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Related Material
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 (Bib ID 15438575)
Smith mathematical instruments, 1st cent.-20th cent.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of David Eugene Smith. 1931.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Smith, David Eugene. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1931. Accession number--M-31.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/1989.
Revision Description
2009-06-26 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
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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