B chapter.indd - Charles Babbage Institute - University of Minnesota

at the ends of the scale but near the middle, a situation
that lessens the amount the slide has to move in many
calculations.
This is a large work on the use of a special slide rule
created by Auguste Beghin in 1898. The instructions are
illustrated with seventy-four problems and 135 figures.
128
Illustrations available:
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Erwin Tomash Library
Beghin, Auguste Bell, Eric Temple
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Beghin, Auguste
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Règle à calculs. Instruction - application numériques.
100 problèmes pratiques et industriels. Tables et
formules.
Year: 1912
Place: Paris
Publisher: Chez Béranger and Tavernier-Gravet
Edition: 5th
Language: French
Figures: 190 in text
Binding: original paper wrappers; unopened
Pagination: pp. x, 185, [5]
Collation: π 5 1–11 8 12 7
Size: 255x166 mm
An expanded edition of the instructional manual by
Beghin on the use of his slide rule—this edition claims
to have 190 figures, almost all of which are simple line
drawings.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 128
Bell, Eric Temple (1883–1960)
The development of mathematics.
Year: 1945
Place: New York
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Edition: 2nd
Language: English
Binding: original cloth boards; with dust jacket
Pagination: pp. xii, 638
Size: 228x150 mm
A native of Aberdeen, Scotland, Eric Temple Bell first
attended the University of London before moving to the
United States, where he earned his A.B. degree in 1904
at Stanford University. He later received an A.M. degree
at Washington University and a Ph.D. at Columbia. After
beginning as an instructor in the mathematics department
at Washington, he rose to become a full professor and then
left to take a professorship at the California Institute of
Technology. He was extensively involved with scientific
associations, serving as president of the Mathematical
Association of America and vice president of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Well known as a writer of technical mathematical papers,
he was also a successful popularizer through his writings
on historical aspects of mathematics. While accessible to
the interested amateur, his historical writings remain a
significant source for the professional historian.
Organized by subject rather than by time, this history
of mathematics begins with the concept of proof and its
place in mathematics and ends with the development of
statistics.
Illustrations available:
Title page
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Bell, Eric Temple (1883–1960)
The magic of numbers.
Year: 1946
Place: New York
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Figures: photograph frontispiece
Binding: original cloth boards; with dust jacket
Pagination: pp. viii, [2], 418
Size: 202x137 mm
This volume covers the development of the concepts of
numbers. Bell starts from Pythagoras and leads up to the
realm of physics via set theory and other branches of
mathematics.