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Mathematics Is a Gentleman's Art: Analysis and Synthesis in American College Geometry Teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K
Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2000 Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Higher Education and Teaching Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Science and Mathematics Education Commons Recommended Citation Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy K., "Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 " (2000). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 12669. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/12669 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margwis, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. in the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. -
And Others a Geographical Biblio
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 052 108 SO 001 480 AUTHOR Lewtbwaite, Gordon R.; And Others TITLE A Geographical Bibliography for hmerican College Libraries. A Revision of a Basic Geographical Library: A Selected and Annotated Book List for American Colleges. INSTITUTION Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C. Commission on College Geography. SPONS AGENCY National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 70 NOTE 225p. AVAILABLE FROM Commission on College Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281 (Paperback, $1.00) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 BC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Annotated Bibliographies, Booklists, College Libraries, *Geography, Hi7her Education, Instructional Materials, *Library Collections, Resource Materials ABSTRACT This annotated bibliography, revised from "A Basic Geographical Library", presents a list of books selected as a core for the geography collection of an American undergraduate college library. Entries numbering 1,760 are limited to published books and serials; individual articles, maps, and pamphlets have been omii_ted. Books of recent date in English are favored, although older books and books in foreign languages have been included where their subject or quality seemed needed. Contents of the bibliography are arranged into four principal parts: 1) General Aids and Sources; 2)History, Philosophy, and Methods; 3)Works Grouped by Topic; and, 4)Works Grouped by Region. Each part is subdivided into sections in this general order: Bibliographies, Serials, Atlases, General, Special Subjects, and Regions. Books are arranged alphabetically by author with some cross-listings given; items for the introductory level are designated. In the introduction, information on entry format and abbreviations is given; an index is appended. -
A Century of Mathematics in America, Peter Duren Et Ai., (Eds.), Vol
Garrett Birkhoff has had a lifelong connection with Harvard mathematics. He was an infant when his father, the famous mathematician G. D. Birkhoff, joined the Harvard faculty. He has had a long academic career at Harvard: A.B. in 1932, Society of Fellows in 1933-1936, and a faculty appointmentfrom 1936 until his retirement in 1981. His research has ranged widely through alge bra, lattice theory, hydrodynamics, differential equations, scientific computing, and history of mathematics. Among his many publications are books on lattice theory and hydrodynamics, and the pioneering textbook A Survey of Modern Algebra, written jointly with S. Mac Lane. He has served as president ofSIAM and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Mathematics at Harvard, 1836-1944 GARRETT BIRKHOFF O. OUTLINE As my contribution to the history of mathematics in America, I decided to write a connected account of mathematical activity at Harvard from 1836 (Harvard's bicentennial) to the present day. During that time, many mathe maticians at Harvard have tried to respond constructively to the challenges and opportunities confronting them in a rapidly changing world. This essay reviews what might be called the indigenous period, lasting through World War II, during which most members of the Harvard mathe matical faculty had also studied there. Indeed, as will be explained in §§ 1-3 below, mathematical activity at Harvard was dominated by Benjamin Peirce and his students in the first half of this period. Then, from 1890 until around 1920, while our country was becoming a great power economically, basic mathematical research of high quality, mostly in traditional areas of analysis and theoretical celestial mechanics, was carried on by several faculty members. -
BIBLIOGRAPHY and INDEX of PUBLICATIONS RELATING to GROUND WATER PREPARED by the GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and COOPERATING AGENCIES *- Ft
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR J. A. Krug, Secretary - GEOLOGICAL SURVEY W. E. Wrather, Director Water-Supply Paper 992 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO GROUND WATER PREPARED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND COOPERATING AGENCIES By GERALD A. WARING and OSCAR E. MEINZER *- ft UNITED STATES GOTERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1947 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Officrv Washington 25. D. C. Price $1.00 CONTENTS Pagt Introduction ................................^.... .-..v.i.*. .*. »*..... 1 Bibliography .......................................... ........... 5 Water-supply papers ............................ ........... 5 Annual reports ............................................ 79 Monographs .................................... ........... 83 Professional papers .............................. ............ 84 Bulletins ....................................... ........... 91 Mineral resources .......................................... 119 Geologic folios ................................. ..........^ 121 Reports published by cooperating agencies.................. 125 Mimeographed and other duplicated reports.................. 1C9 Journal articles ............................................ 190 Index ............................................................ 235 II BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF PUBLICATIOrS RELATING TO GROUND WATER PREPARED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND COOPERATING AGENCIES By GERALD A. WARING AND OSCAR E. MEINZER INTRODUCTION The work of the Geological Survey -
The Bowman Expeditions Political Geography
Political Geography 29 (2010) 413 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Political Geography journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/polgeo Editorial Professional ethics and the politics of geographic knowledge: The Bowman Expeditions There is a long history of interaction between geography and activism in political geography, and it led us to solicit responses the military, and few would deny that geographic knowledge can that, in conversation with Bryan, would examine the compromises serve as a “force multiplier” for all sides in military, paramilitary, made (and opportunities gained) by political geographers as or even purely civilian conflicts. Acknowledging the interface they cross the divide between academic scholarship and military– between geographic knowledge and military/state practice, in political practice. turn, raises a host of questions about the ability and duty of To foster discussion, we invited submissions from representa- geographic researchers to negotiate it: Can scholars gathering tives of two key parties involved in the Bowman Expeditions debate geographic knowledge truly know who will end up using their – Peter Herlihy, who directed the first Bowman Expedition, and insights and to what ends? Can they ever with moral certainty Kiado Cruz, an activist from one of the communities in which the identify what is a good end? Do they have the power to direct Expedition gathered data. Additionally, because Bryan addresses that their research be used toward one end and not another? not just the practice and responsibilities of individual geographers And, even if they answer each of these three questions in the but the practice and responsibilities of geographers’ organizations, affirmative – that is, even if they feel that they know how their the journal invited a response from John Agnew, who was president knowledge will be used, they are confident that they know of the Association of American Geographers when the controversy what is a good end, and they believe that they have the ability surrounding the Bowman Expeditions was at its height. -
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1936 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Trustees, as of December 31, 1936. 3 II Members of the Corporation, as of December 31, 1936. 4 III Report of the Treasurer . 5 IV Report of the Director. 9 V Staff, as of December 31, 1936 . 17 ApPENDIX: Reports of progress by investigators working at the Institution during 1936 . .. .... ........ ... ... ' " . " 18 I. TRUSTEES (As of December 31, 1936) To serve until 1940 WILLIAM BOWIE. U. S . Coast & Geodetic Survey, Washington, D.C. A. G. H UNTSMAN, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. COLUMBUS O'D. ISELIN, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. ALFRED C. REDFIELD, Harvard Un i versity, Cambridge, Mass. HENRY L. SHATTUCK, Boston, Mass. T. WAYLAND VAUGHAN, Washington, D.C. To serve until 1939 ISAIAH BOWMAN, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. E. G. CONKLIN, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. ALEXANDER FORBES, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Ross G. HARRISON, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. FRANK R. LILLIE, University of Chicago, Chicago, Itt. HARLOW SHAPLEY, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. To serve until 1938 CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Boston, Mass. THOMAS BARBOUR, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. BENJAMIN M. D UGGAR, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. JOHN A. FLEMING, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C. FRANK B. JEWETT, New York, N.Y. ELIHU ROOT, JR., New York, N.Y. To serve until 1937 THE COMMANDANT (Admiral R. R. Waesche), U. S. Coast Guard, for the time being, Washington, D.C. MARION EpPLEY, Newport, R.I. THE HYDROGRAPHER (Capt. L. R. Leahy), U. S. Navy Department, for the time being, Washington, D.C. -
The Harv Ard Forest, 1968-69
THE HARV ARD FOREST, 1968-69 Harvard University Frontispiece: Old growth forest on the Harvard Pisgah Tract in New Hampshire. Recent studies suggest these pine and hemlocks originated after a hurricane and fire in the mid 1600's. Photo taken in 1915, see page 9 for related photo taken in 1938. HARVARD F O R E S T HARVARD BLACK ROCK F O R E S T Annual Report •••... 1968-1969 STAFF The staff of the Harvard Forest during the year of 1968-69 consisted of the following persons: Martin H. Zimmermann, Acting Director (through September 1968) Ernest M. Gould, Jr., Forest Economist, Acting Director (from October 1968) Walter H. Lyford, Soil Scientist Hugh M. Raup, Bullard Professor of Forestry, Emeritus J. Mark A. Swan, Research Fellow (Harvard and Black Rock Forest) Jack J. Karnig, Forest Manager (Harvard and Black Rock Forest) Supporting personnel included: Barbara M. Kelley, Business Secretary and Librarian Catherine M. Danahar, Secretarial Assistant (from March 1969) Julia W. Savage, Secretarial Assistant (through March 1969) Barbara M. McCurda, Secretary (jointly with Cabot Foundation) Vibeke Holm, Assistant to the Librarian Charles F. Upham, Woods Superintendent Gordon B. Mitchell, Woods Crew George T. Kenney, Woods Crew Edward H. Hyde. Woods Crew Theodore S. Walkama, Custodian The staff of the Cabot Foundation, working at the Harvard Forest, during the year 1968-69 consisted of the following: Martin H. Zimmermann, Forest Physiologist (sabbatical leave from October 1968) Philip R. Morey, Forest Botanist P. B. Tomlinson, Forest Anatomist (Joint Appointment with Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, Florida on sabbatical leave from November 1968) A. -
Neil Smith, 1954-2012: Radical Geography, Marxist Geographer, Revolutionary Geographer
1 Neil Smith, 1954-2012: Radical Geography, Marxist Geographer, Revolutionary Geographer Don Mitchell Department of Geography, Syracuse University and Advanced Research Collaborative, Graduate Center City University of New York September 29, 2013 "Although we found it easy to be brilliant, we always found it confusing to be good." Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (quotation found pinned to the bulletin board in Neil Smith’s study when passed away) Neil Smith hated hagiography. He would rail against it in his history and theory of geography seminars at Rutgers University in the early 1990s, holding up what he thought were particularly egregious examples: obituaries published in the Annals. Hagiography for Neil was the antithesis of what our disciplinary history ought to be: it was uncritical and celebratory, when what were needed were hard-nosed engagements with ideas, with real histories that understood ideas as the product of struggle and error as well as genius and insight. Even worse, hagiography extracted its subject from history, setting him (usually him) apart from the world as a lone genius rather than fully ensconcing him in messy social (and personal) practices, situating ideas within the social (and personal) histories from which they emerged. Hagiography had little room to show how what was genius in someone’s ideas might be inextricably linked to, indeed very much a function of both social context and what was flawed or less savory in that person. Hagiography denies that ideas are embodied. Neil’s ideas were embodied. 2 Indeed, David Harvey calls Neil “the perfect practicing Marxist – completely defined by his contradictions.”1 Born in Leith, the old port of Edinburgh, and raised one of four children of a school teaching father and homemaking mother in Dalkeith, a small working-class town to the southeast of the city, Neil had an indestructible passion for the natural world, starting with his native Midlothian landscape and quickly spiraling out, for birdwatching, and for gardening, and he became geography’s preeminent urban theorist. -
Proceedings of the 2006 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium
United States Department of Agriculture Proceedings of the 2006 Forest Service Northeastern Recreation Northern Research Station Research Symposium General Technical Report NRS-P-14 April 9-11, 2006 Bolton Landing, New York Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium Policy Statement The objective of the NERR Symposium is to positively influence our profession by allowing managers and academicians in the governmental, educational, and private recreation & tourism sectors to share practical and scientific knowledge. This objective is met through providing a professional forum for quality information exchange on current management practices, problems, and research applications in the field, as well as, a comfortable social setting that allows participants to foster friendships with colleagues. Students and all those interested in continuing their education in recreation and tourism management are welcome. NERR 2006 Steering Committee Members Kelly Bricker - W.I.L.D. - U Robert Bristow - Westfield State College Robert Burns - West Virginia University (Proceedings Editor) Chad Dawson - SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry Alan Graefe - Penn State University Andrew Holdnak - University of West Florida Deborah Kerstetter - Penn State University Diane Kuehn - SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (Website Coordinator) Walter Kuentzel - University of Vermont Gerard Kyle - Texas A&M University (Program Chair) Bruce Lord - Penn State University Thomas More - USDA Forest Service - Northeastern Research Station James Murdy - -
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Titles in This Series Volume 8 Kare n Hunger Parshall and David £. Rowe The emergenc e o f th e America n mathematica l researc h community , 1876-1900: J . J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore 1994 7 Hen k J. M. Bos Lectures in the history of mathematic s 1993 6 Smilk a Zdravkovska and Peter L. Duren, Editors Golden years of Moscow mathematic s 1993 5 Georg e W. Mackey The scop e an d histor y o f commutativ e an d noncommutativ e harmoni c analysis 1992 4 Charle s W. McArthur Operations analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II 1990 3 Pete r L. Duren, editor, et al. A century of mathematics in America, part III 1989 2 Pete r L. Duren, editor, et al. A century of mathematics in America, part II 1989 1 Pete r L. Duren, editor, et al. A century of mathematics in America, part I 1988 This page intentionally left blank https://doi.org/10.1090/hmath/008 History of Mathematics Volume 8 The Emergence o f the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876-1900: J . J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moor e Karen Hunger Parshall David E. Rowe American Mathematical Societ y London Mathematical Societ y 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 01A55 , 01A72, 01A73; Secondary 01A60 , 01A74, 01A80. Photographs o n th e cove r ar e (clockwis e fro m right ) th e Gottinge n Mathematisch e Ges - selschafft, Feli x Klein, J. J. Sylvester, and E. H. Moore. -
A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 1920–1929
A Complete Bibliography of Publications in Isis, 1920{1929 Nelson H. F. Beebe University of Utah Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB 155 S 1400 E RM 233 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 USA Tel: +1 801 581 5254 FAX: +1 801 581 4148 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (Internet) WWW URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ 14 March 2016 Version 0.04 Title word cross-reference [616, 792, 556]. [616, 792, 556]. n [69]. -1335 [197]. 1106 [459]. 1491 [416]. 1493 [561]. 1498 [562]. 1524 [103]. 1614 [41]. 1647 [662]. 1650 [104]. 1679 [42]. 1693 [43]. 16e [102]. 1721 [452]. 1724 [435]. 1726 [44]. 17e [102]. 1913 [164]. 1922 [368, 241, 284]. 1923 [332]. 1925 [593]. 1928-1 [745]. 1928-2 [781]. 20th [633]. 22nd [435]. 27/11 [770]. 3000 [182]. 4/1 [770]. 1 2 = [69]. ^Iles [491]. A. [544, 482, 222, 82, 104]. A.-A [18]. A.-B [18]. A.D [834]. A.D. [754]. Ab^u [730]. Abb´e [104]. Abbildungen [837, 275, 181]. Abbott [351]. 'Abd [560, 116]. 'abd-al-Kahir [116]. Abdel [670]. Abdou [670]. Abeilles [523]. Abel [328, 678]. Abenbeder [207]. Abendlandes [271]. Aberglaube [628]. Aboriginal [627]. Abr [796]. Abu [116, 731, 577]. Abu-Mansur [116]. Abu'l [450, 441, 594, 441]. Abu'l-Jud [441, 594, 441]. Abu'l-Qasim [450]. Abu'l=Jud [594]. accidentium [835]. according [641, 290]. Account [551]. Achalme [226, 315]. Achard [570]. Achille [849]. achtzehnten [238]. Acquaintance [776]. Adams's [171]. adaptation [311]. adh [450]. adh-dhahab [450]. Adickes [564]. -
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i i “IrvingBook” — 2013/5/22 — 15:39 — page i — #1 i i 10.1090/clrm/043 Beyond the Quadratic Formula i i i i i i “IrvingBook” — 2013/5/22 — 15:39 — page ii — #2 i i c 2013 by the Mathematical Association of America, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2013940989 Print edition ISBN 978-0-88385-783-0 Electronic edition ISBN 978-1-61444-112-0 Printed in the United States of America Current Printing (last digit): 10987654321 i i i i i i “IrvingBook” — 2013/5/22 — 15:39 — page iii — #3 i i Beyond the Quadratic Formula Ron Irving University of Washington Published and Distributed by The Mathematical Association of America i i i i i i “IrvingBook” — 2013/5/22 — 15:39 — page iv — #4 i i Council on Publications and Communications Frank Farris, Chair Committee on Books Gerald M. Bryce, Chair Classroom Resource Materials Editorial Board Gerald M. Bryce, Editor Michael Bardzell Jennifer Bergner Diane L. Herrmann Paul R. Klingsberg Mary Morley Philip P. Mummert Mark Parker Barbara E. Reynolds Susan G. Staples Philip D. Straffin Cynthia J Woodburn i i i i i i “IrvingBook” — 2013/5/22 — 15:39 — page v — #5 i i CLASSROOM RESOURCE MATERIALS Classroom Resource Materials is intended to provide supplementary class- room material for students—laboratory exercises, projects, historical in- formation, textbooks with unusual approaches for presenting mathematical ideas, career information, etc. 101 Careers in Mathematics, 2nd edition edited by Andrew Sterrett Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?, Sherman Stein Beyond the Quadratic Formula, Ronald S.