Craig, Thomas, 1855-1900
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gustav A. Liebig collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030055663]
Identifier: MS-0329
Scope and Contents
The collection of physicist, Gustav A. Liebig, consists of three photographs and two reprints. Two photographs are of notable Hopkins faculty members: the physicist Henry A. Rowland (1848-1901) and the mathematician Thomas Craig (1855-1900). The third photograph is of British physicist, Baron William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907) who lectured at the University on molecular dynamics and the wave theory of light in 1884. Also in the collection is a reprint of an article published by...
Dates:
1886-1887
Found in:
Special Collections
Karl Weierstrass lectures
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31151030056521]
Identifier: MS-0350
Abstract
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was born in Osterfelde, Westphalia (Germany) on October 31, 1815. Weierstrass was a famous mathematician in 19th-century Germany. The collection consists of one bound holographic manuscript titled "Theorie der Variationsrechnung. Vorlesung gehalten im Somersemester 1879 von Prof. Dr. C. Weierstrass." (Theory of variation accounting. Lectures given during the summer semester of 1879 by Prof. dr. C. Weierstrass.) The manuscript is written in German and is not...
Dates:
1879
Found in:
Special Collections
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