Graphical version

University College London

Clifford Papers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 104

Held at: University College London

Title: Clifford Papers

Date(s): 19th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 portfolio

Name of creator(s): Clifford | William Kingdon | 1845-1879 | mathematician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Clifford was born in 1845. He was educated at Exeter, at King's College London and at Trinity College Cambridge. He was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College London in 1871, a post he held till 1879. A mathematician, Clifford was also a classical scholar and read French, German, Spanish and modern Greek fluently. However, he drove himself relentlessly and worked long hours. Signs of pulmonary disease appeared in 1876 and he died in 1879 at the age of 33.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Undated mathematical fragments.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

University College London Special Collections also holds undated lecture notes on geometry (Ref: MS ADD 172); two letters to Mrs Pollock [1869-1870] (Ref: MS ADD 136); a letter to Mrs Cayley [1870s] and one to Mrs Besant, 1876 (Ref: MS MISC 3C); a letter relating to absence from a Higher Senior Mathematics Class, 1879 (Ref: COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE AM/C/19); a letter, 1868 (Ref: L M S PAPERS); letters to George Croom Robertson (Ref: MS ADD 88); and letters of his wife, Lucy, to Karl Pearson (Ref: PEARSON).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Aug 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Mathematicians | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Mathematics

Personal names
Clifford | William Kingdon | 1845-1879 | mathematician

Corporate names

Places