The Augustus De Morgan Collection, Part 3: Mathematics: Arithmetic, Analysis & Function, Tables, and Weights & Measures
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Title:
Contributions to mathematics ::comprising chiefly the rectification of the circle to 607 places of decimals /
Creator:
Shanks, William.
Shanks, William,associated name.UK-LoURL
De Morgan, Augustus,1806-1871,former owner.UK-LoURL
Date:
1853
Date in Source:
1853.
Imprint:
London : G. Bell for the author,
Language:
English
Subject:
Circle - Measurement.
Format:
xvi, 95 p. ;26 cm.
Note:
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan, with his inscription on t.p., 12 June 1853.
- ULL copy has mathematical calculations on front free endpaper. Two ALS from William Shanks to Augustus De Morgan, 3 Dec. 1852 - 29 Aug. 1860, and advertisement for exhibition at the Crystal Palace, annotated, tipped in. Previously accompanied by ALS from William Shanks to Augustus De Morgan, 12 Nov. 1867; leaf of mathematical calculations by De Morgan; and tables in De Morgan's hand, "On the decimal expression for the reciprocal of the prime number 17389" (6 p.), 1 Dec. 1865 (see De Morgan archives).
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004689251_MOR3-b29146094 Bottom half of spine missing
- ULL copy is from the library of Augustus De Morgan, with his inscription on t.p., 12 June 1853.
- ULL copy has mathematical calculations on front free endpaper. Two ALS from William Shanks to Augustus De Morgan, 3 Dec. 1852 - 29 Aug. 1860, and advertisement for exhibition at the Crystal Palace, annotated, tipped in. Previously accompanied by ALS from William Shanks to Augustus De Morgan, 12 Nov. 1867; leaf of mathematical calculations by De Morgan; and tables in De Morgan's hand, "On the decimal expression for the reciprocal of the prime number 17389" (6 p.), 1 Dec. 1865 (see De Morgan archives).
- DOI: 10.1163/9789004689251_MOR3-b29146094 Bottom half of spine missing
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