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Add. MS a/208/17
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Letter from Charles Webb Le Bas
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- 8 Dec. 1837 (Creation)
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East India College, Hertford - They have a 'candidate for matrimony, and a Professorship' [of Mathematics] called Heaviside [James W. L. Heaviside]: and since they know nothing about him, 'we are naturally anxious to ascertain...what manner of a person he is. We are told that he is 'voiced most regardfully ' among you, as a consummate master of the integral and differential mysteries. We are, moreover, assured that he is a good social fellow, and a man of the world'. The patrons and Masters of the College are seeking a new constitution, but Le Bas has no idea why they want a Dean.
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Heaviside was elected Professor of Mathematics at the College in 1838 and remained in that position until 1857.