GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP32 - HUDSON, Professor William Henry Hoar (1838-1915)

1 box or 0.01m3

Donated to the Royal Society of Arts by Mr E E Hudson, grandson of the author.
GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP32 Created 1873, 1898 Collection (fonds) 1 box or 0.01m3 Hudson , William Henry Hoar , 1838-1915 , Professor of Mathematics
Born 1838; educated King's College London and St John's College, Cambridge; Mathematical Lecturer, St Catherine's College, Cambridge, 1862-1863 and 1867-1868, and at St John's College, Cambridge, 1869-1881; Fellow of King's College London, 1873; Professor of Mathematics, King's College London, 1882-1903, and Queen's College, London, 1883-1905; Member of Council, London Mathematical Society, 1894-1899; Member of Senate, London University, 1901-1904; Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, 1909; died 1915.

Publications: preface to The story of arithmetic by Susan Cunnington (Swan Sonnenschein and Co, London, 1904); Algebra; editor of Books I and II of Euclid; Notes on the first principles of dynamics (Hodgson, London, 1884); On the teaching of elementary algebra (C F Hodgson and Son, London, [1886]; On the teaching of Mathematics (Private, London, 1893).

Donated to the Royal Society of Arts by Mr E E Hudson, grandson of the author.

Deposited at King's College London Library, by the Royal Society of Arts, in 1964.

Papers of Hudson comprising 'Angle Generator for use in the study of trigonometry' by W B Bushell, 1873; a letter from H Orfleur concerning surfaces, with photograph of geometrical model attached, 1898; invitation to Hudson from Principal Henry Wace to the Medical Department Prize Distribution, with geometrical drawing on the reverse; mathematical model (quadratic surface: ellipsoid).

4 items.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
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Handlist available in hard copy in the College Archive reading room.

Feb 2000 Bushell , W B , fl 1873 Geometry Hudson , William Henry Hoar , 1838-1915 , mathematician King's College London Mathematics Mathematics education Orfleur , H , fl 1898 Wace , Henry , 1836-1924 , Dean of Canterbury, historian and Controversialist

Deposited at King's College London Library, by the Royal Society of Arts, in 1964.

Papers of Hudson comprising 'Angle Generator for use in the study of trigonometry' by W B Bushell, 1873; a letter from H Orfleur concerning surfaces, with photograph of geometrical model attached, 1898; invitation to Hudson from Principal Henry Wace to the Medical Department Prize Distribution, with geometrical drawing on the reverse; mathematical model (quadratic surface: ellipsoid).

4 items.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

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Handlist available in hard copy in the College Archive reading room.

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