1904 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST MATHEMATICIANS AND PROMINENT CANADIANS
by ALEXANDER MACFARLANE
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Cochrane, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
GOWRIE GROVE CHATHAM ONTARIO CANADA. Very Good+. 1904. On offer is a super, boldly handwritten ALS, autograph letter signed, by Alexander Macfarlane (1851-1913) Scottish-Canadian logician, physicist, and mathematician. During his life, Macfarlane played a prominent role in research and education. He was, at various times in his life, physics professor at the University of Texas, professor of Advanced Electricity, and later of mathematical physics, at Lehigh University, and co-founder and president of the International Association for Promoting the Study of Quaternions and Allied Systems of Mathematics until his death. He was also the author of a popular 1916 collection of mathematical biographies (Ten British Mathematicians), a similar work on physicists (Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, 1919), and he compiled a bibliography on quaternions in 1904. Significantly, he invented of hyperbolic quaternions, precursor to Minkowski space. He actively participated in several International Congresses of Mathematicians including the Paris meeting of 1900 where he described the counter-sphere in the topological ring of coquaternions. Dated, Chatham Ontario, Canada, December 21, 1904, 1p, 4to; to Prof. Woodward congratulating Woodward on his election as President of the Carnegie Institution.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; LOGIC, PHYSICS, EDUCATION, TEXAS, CANADA, CANADIANA, MATHEMATICS, ONTARIO, CARNEGIE, LEHIGH, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, ARCHIVE, DIARY, DIARIES, .
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- Bookseller
- Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00MV822
- Title
- 1904 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S FOREMOST MATHEMATICIANS AND PROMINENT CANADIANS
- Author
- ALEXANDER MACFARLANE
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Place of Publication
- GOWRIE GROVE CHATHAM ONTARIO CANADA
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- LOGIC, PHYSICS, EDUCATION, TEXAS, CANADA, CANADIANA, MATHEMATICS, ONTARIO, CARNEGIE
- Bookseller catalogs
- 20th Century Manuscript; 20th Century Ephemera;
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Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc.
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Cochrane, Alberta
About Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc.
Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. (formerly M. Benjamin Katz Fine Books/Rare Manuscripts) is based out of both Ontario and Alberta, Canada. We do business by appointment, and have had an online presence selling fine books and rare manuscripts since 1999. Specializing in handwritten, historically significant books, manuscripts, diaries, documents and ephemera. A member of The Manuscript Societyeach treasure on offer is guaranteed authentic and as represented for life. Worldwide clientele includes esteemed collections and public, private and university libraries on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific. Always buying collections and estates.
Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc.has been an online sales and auction presence with over 7000 transactions since 1999.
Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc.has been an online sales and auction presence with over 7000 transactions since 1999.
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