Item 199 - E. H. Linfoot: notes on Alexsandrov's lectures on dimension and Menger's theorem

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Add. MS b/199

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E. H. Linfoot: notes on Alexsandrov's lectures on dimension and Menger's theorem

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  • 1929-1930 (Creation)

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1 vol.

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(1905-1982)

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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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Gift of Joyce Linton and the London Mathematical Society, 1984.

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One of four notebooks kept by E. H. Linfoot containing notes made at Princeton 1929-1930, under H. P. Robertson, J. von Neumann, and P. Alexandroff, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.196-199. 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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      Notebook contents list made by RG, c 1984, a scanned copy of which is attached to this record.

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      See also other Linfoot papers, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.179-199, all of which are linked from the Add.Ms.b.179 record (linked below).

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