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Add. MS b/182
Title
E. H. Linfoot: notes of G. H. Hardy's lectures on theory of functions
Date(s)
- 1927 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 vol.
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Name of creator
(1905-1982)
Biographical history
Linfoot was on the tutorial staff at Balliol College Oxford and a lecturer at Bristol University before becoming John Couch Adams Astronomer and Assistant Director of the University Observatory at Cambridge 1948-70.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of the London Mathematical Society via Dr G. R. Allan, 1984.
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Scope and content
One of twelve notebooks kept by E. H. Linfoot containing notes made while at Oxford 1924-1928, under G. H. Hardy and Abram Besicovitch, and catalogued as Add.Ms.b.179-190. The other papers in this collection are described in the record for the first item in the collection, Add.Ms.b.179.
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Finding aids
Notebook contents list made by RG, c 1984, a scanned copy of which is attached to this record.