Item 193 - E. H. Linfoot: notes on Harald Bohr's lectures on almost periodic functions

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Reference code

Add. MS b/193

Title

E. H. Linfoot: notes on Harald Bohr's lectures on almost periodic functions

Date(s)

  • 1928-1929 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 vol.

Context area

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.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

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

Content and structure area

Scope and content

One of five notebooks kept by E. H. Linfoot containing notes made at Göttingen 1928-1929, under Bartel van der Waerden, Emil Artin, Harald Bohr, and Edmund Landau, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.191-195. The other papers in this collection are described in theread more

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Finding aids

Notebook contents list made by RG, c 1984, a scanned copy of which is attached to this record.

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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).

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