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Description: | [Collection of mathematical notebooks of M.M.U. Wilkinson. ca.1851-1916. Wilkinson was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was fellow and assistant tutor 1855-1865. He was rector of Reepham St. Mary near Norwich from 1864. The books, some of which contain loose sheets, include notes and worked problems from his Cambridge studies in the 1850s; Senate House and other examination problems, 1861-65; draft essay for Adams Prize, 1869; commentaries on mathematical books and papers; investigations into elliptic functions, spherical functions, Gauss's series and quaternions, ca.1870-1910. They also include some elementary work by his daughters, Maud and Geraldine, in the 1880s. 68 vols. Listing available] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | notebooks | Temporal: | 1851-1916 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Wilkinson, Michael Marlow Umfreville, 1831-1916 | Identifier: | 1995-382 | Go to resource |
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