Item 46-48 - Lectures and addresses

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DAVT/C/46-48

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Lectures and addresses

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  • c 1945-58 (Creation)

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Davenport, Harold (1907-1969), mathematician
(1907-1969)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Material found in an unlabelled binder with C41-C51.
C.46: '5. Gauss's Sum'. 8pp. ms. draft of a lecture, probably one of a series. 'Higher power residues'. 4pp. ms. draft, probably unfinished, of a lecture. 1p. ms. notes outlining a course of lectures.
C.47: 'II Divisibility and the primes', 'III Congruences', 'IV Quadratic residues'. 3pp. ms. outlines of lectures. '5 (k/P) as a function of P'. 2pp. ms. draft.
C.48: '2. Gauss's lemma'. 2pp. ms. draft. '3. The law of quadratic reciprocity'. 3pp. ms. draft. '4 An algorithm for (a//p)'. 2pp. ms. draft.
Created while at University College, London.

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