Lot 212: Wooster Woodruff Beman (1850-1922) author of Essays on the Theory of Numbers

Name: Wooster Woodruff Beman (1850-1922) author of Essays on the Theory of Numbers
Brand: East Coast Books
SKU: d0c4999918
Price: 25 USD

Est: $75 USD - $100 USDPassed

East Coast BooksWells, ME, USJuly 11, 2024

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Wooster Woodruff Beman (1850-1922) In 1870 he was appointed Instructor in Greek and Mathematics at Kalamazoo College, but resigned this position after one year to accept an instructorship in Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Here he continued for thirty-five years. He is the author of "Essays on the Theory of Numbers" (from the German of Dedekind, 1901); and in association with Professor David Eugene Smith, of Teachers' College, Columbia University, of the following: "Plane and Solid Geometry" (1895), "New Higher Arithmetic" (1897), "Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry" (from the German of Klein, 1897), "New Plane and Solid Geometry" (1899), "A Brief History of Mathematics" (from the German of Fink, 1900)," Elements of Algebra" (1900), "Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding" (a revised edition of the work of Sundara Row, 1901), and "Academic Algebra" (1902). He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the London Mathematical Society, the Deutsche Mathematike Vereinigung, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which he was vice-president and chairman of Section A in 1897. He was actively interested in church affairs, and was Treasurer of the Baptist Convention of the State of Michigan [1893]. Offered here is a ALS, University of Michigan, 1891, 1p., approx. 5 x 8 in. Written to R.S. Woodward the American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Beman asks Woodward if he would allow his name to be used as a candidate for the chair of astronomy at the U. of Michigan. If not he asks Woodward for his opinion of 3 other men. VG.

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ART - AUTOGRAPHS - HISTORICAL PAPER - BOOKS

East Coast Books

July 11, 2024, 03:00 PM EST

PO Box 849, Wells, ME, 04090, US

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