Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1929-1930 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
3 vols.
Context area
Name of creator
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.
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Joyce Linton and the London Mathematical Society, 1984.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Three 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… read more
Conditions of access and use area
Finding aids
Notebook contents list made by RG, c 1984, a scanned copy of which is attached to this record.
Allied materials area
Related units of description
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).