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Bateman, Harry (1882-1946)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 746

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Bateman, Harry (1882-1946)

Date(s): 1880-1904

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 3 notebooks

Name of creator(s): Bateman | Harry | 1882-1946 | mathematician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1882; Education: MA; PhD; Career: Professor of Mathematical Physics in the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1928; died, 1946.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Harry Bateman including three notebooks, two (numbered six and seven) containing notes from the lectures of E T Whittaker at Trinity College Cambridge 1903-1904; one containing formulae connected with the Legendre and Bessel functions, with Trinity examination paper 1880 and printed testimonial by Rutherford.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Mathematics

Personal names
Bateman | Harry | 1882-1946 | mathematician
Whittaker | Sir | Edmund Taylor | 1873-1956 | Knight | mathematician

Corporate names
University of Cambridge | Trinity College

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