[Lecture notes on calculus]

Name:

Weierstrass, Karl, 1815-1897

Timespan:

19th century

Date:

1879

Description:

Student notes from the lectures of Karl Weierstrass on analytical and elliptical functions, perhaps partly taken and compiled by Archibald Lamont Daniels, an American graduate student in mathematics at Göttingen and Berlin who later taught mathematics at the University of Vermont.

Language:

German

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Archibald Lamont Daniels, with inscription A. L. Daniels, Berlin-Göttingen, 1879-1883, 49 Mansfield Ave., Burlington, Vt., 1910 (front flyleaf).; Formerly owned by Sydney Ross, professor of chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (bookplate, inside upper cover).; Appears in 19th Century Shop's cat. 39, p. 23.; Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 37.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.; Daniels, Archibald Lamont, 1849-1918, former owner.; Ross, Sydney, 1915- former owner.; Stanitz, John D., former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs206.html

Subject:

Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- 19th century; Calculus; Mathematics -- Study and teaching

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); lecture notes; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, American; Manuscripts, Digital; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

188 leaves : paper; 246 x 196 (205 x 156) mm bound to 252 x 210 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; German mathematician who taught at what is now the Technische Universität Berlin.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-42v: Einige auf die Theorie der analÿtischen Functionen mehrerer Veränderlichen sich beziehende Sätze / zusammengestellt und dem mathematischen Verein zu Berlin zur Veröffentlichung übergeben von Professor Dr. C. Weieirstrass.; Table of contents: 2. f.47r-86v: Theorie der Elliptischen Functionen / nach Karl Weierstrass, Summer 1881.; Table of contents: 3. f.95r-176v: Anwendungen der elliptischen Functionen auf Problems der Geometrie und Mechanik, Sommersemester 1879.; Table of contents: 4. f.178r: Zwecke des Seminars, Nov. 3d, 1880.; Table of contents: 5. f.178v-181v: Einiges aus der Mechanik des Himmels.; Pagination: Paper, i + 188 + i leaves; [1-188, 1-2], 3-164, [253-376]; contemporary foliation in ink in third work, upper outer corners.; Layout: Ruled paper with outer margins printed in red.; Script: Written in cursive script, possibly by multiple hands.; Binding: Quarter cloth over marbled boards, with spine title Weiestrass, Vermischtes (matches the binding of LJS 207).; Origin: Written in Berlin (f. 1r), 1879 (f. 95r)-1881 (f. 47r).; German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 206

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)