Item 4 - Notebook, containing mathematical, philosophical and personal memoranda by W. K. Clifford

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Notebook, containing mathematical, philosophical and personal memoranda by W. K. Clifford

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  • 1870s? (Creation)

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1 volume containing 59 leaves, with 5 slips in a pocket inside the front cover

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Clifford, William Kingdon (1845-1879), mathematician and philosopher of science
(1845-1879)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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The contents include notes on Kirkman’s papers on groups, Maxwell on the dynamic theory of gases, Cremona on the theory of polars, and Stokes on the dynamical theory of diffraction.

(Inserted are five tickets for the Bayswater Reading Rooms.)

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