Unidad documental compuesta 8 - Hard-cover notebook labelled 'Perse Grammar School. Thomson. VI special'. Inside front cover is the heading 'Geometrical Conics'

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THMG/B/8

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Hard-cover notebook labelled 'Perse Grammar School. Thomson. VI special'. Inside front cover is the heading 'Geometrical Conics'

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1 vol

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Nombre del productor

Thomson, Sir George Paget (1892-1975), knight, physicist and Nobel laureate
(1892-1975)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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.Thomson mentions in his autobiography (A.3) that during his last year at school he was coached in 'modern geometry' by H.W. Turnbull, and the notebook presumably dates from this period.