Identificatie
referentie code
Add. MS a/202/122
Titel
Letter from Augustus De Morgan
Datum(s)
- 7 Oct. 1850 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Omvang en medium
3 pp
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
7 Camdn. St. & T. - Thanks WW for the number 2 of the intrinsic equation and for the paper on Political Economy [Mathematical Exposition of some Doctrines of Political Economy: Second Memoir, 1850], is 'always stopped in political economy by that diabolical currency'. ADM picked up today his own 'note of an old Hindoo rule in Viga Granita which has never to my knowledge been made European', on how to extract the square root of a + √b + √c + √d. 'Really these elephant riding widow burning [?] were noways contemptible.'