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Augustin Louis Cauchy manuscript volume of mathematics lectures

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Description: The only recorded set of notes taken from French mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy's first-year undergraduate lectures at the École Polytechnique for the years 1824-1825, taken by his student Christophe Louis Léon Juchault de La Moricière. These notes are of considerable historical importance: although the lectures on analysis were published in four great treatises, the content of the lectures evolved significantly during Cauchy's 15 years of teaching so that the content of a particular series of lectures may differ significantly from the published version. Moreover, the notes provide a unique insight into Cauchy's lectures on mechanics, which were never published.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1824-1825
Call number: mssHM 82485
Creator: Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857)(Opens in new tab)
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IB's lectures with his young people: manuscript volume

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This volume contains lectures, mainly in Burrow's hand and given by Burrows to his pupils, however there are also some works by a few of his pupils. There is an index at the end of the volume which lists 26 different pieces. Some of the topics include: leprosy, physiognomy, ancient antiquities, etc. Some pages blank, mainly written on the rectos, some pages excised.

mssHM 80844

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Louis Pasteur autograph manuscript research notes relating to his early studies and experiments with beer

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Louis Pasteur probably carried out these experiments with beer in the first half of 1871 at the Kuhn Brewery in Clermont-Ferrand. This series of investigations would form the basis of Études sur la bière (1876), a rousing tract that furthered the study of fermentation and argued for better nationalism through chemistry. The notes are in French, but each page has an English translation.

mssHM 80961-80968

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Manuscript and letters of Louis-Adolphe Bertillon

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The manuscript, entitled "Questions de démographie et correspondence avec Bertillon père," appears to contain problems related to demographic statistics by mathematician E. Bernes. It appears that Bertillon was seeking the assistance of a mathematician to review and possibly correct the articles he was writing for Le dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences medicales. Some of the problems discussed include formula of survival such as calculation of the population after births and deaths and the probability of death of an individual for a given age at a determined time. He also writes of the statistical significance of marriage and response to criticism by fellow French statistician Irénée-Jules Bienaymé. There are five loose items in the manuscript, including one graph. There are also four letters: three by Louis-Adolphe and one by his son Jacques, all addressed to E. Bernes. The items are all in French.

mssHM 78315-78319

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Louis Janin Papers (Addenda)

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This collection contains 18 diaries of American mining engineer Louis Janin (1837-1914). The diaries contain descriptions of mines, notes of mine surveys, and accounts of trips to survey mines in California, Nevada, Japan, and Mexico. Five of the volumes deal with Janin's 1873 stay in Japan, and include details regarding the management of mines in Japan. The diaries also include some personal and family information.

mssHM 64294-64311

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Outlines of experimental lectures in natural philosophy delivered at Yale College: manuscript

Manuscripts

This volume is a printed edition of Outlines of experimental lectures in natural philolophy delivered at Yale College, printed in 1828, that includes C. T. Prentice's handwritten notes throughout the entire volume. Also includes folded lecture notes in front cover.

mssHM 71898

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Louis XV certificate of safe passage for L. Ducros

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Document in which Louis XV grants L. (probably Leonard) Ducros, a supplier of building supplies to the Navy, "safe-conduct and safety of his person" for six months. Signed at Versailles and affixed with paper seal. May be in a secretarial hand. In French.

mssHM 78103

Augustin Louis Cauchy manuscript volume of mathematics lectures

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