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Title

Theorie der Variationsrechnung

Authors

• Weierstrass, Karl, 1815-1897

Other related names

• Daniels, Archibald Lamont, 1849-1918, former owner
• Ross, Sydney, 1915-, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 207
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5975138
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5975138

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German

Origin

Date

1879

Place

Berlin

Summary

Notes by a student from the lectures of Karl Weierstrass on the calculus of variations, in 18 chapters.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. 1); spine title Variationsrechnung.
   

Extent

204 leaves : 267 x 196 (268 x 156) mm. bound to 252 x 226 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 204 + i leaves; [1-2], 3-405, [406-408]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Quarter cloth over marbled boards, with spine title Weierstrass, Variationsrechnung (matches the binding of LJS 206).

Layout

Margins impressed in each leaf.

Decoration

Occasional small mathematical diagrams in the text (p. 58, 77, 87, 88, 142, 155, 252, 270, 288, 298, 331, 340).

Script

Written in cursive script, by a single hand (probably not any of the hands in LJS 206).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Archibald Lamont Daniels (American graduate student in mathematics at Göttingen and Berlin who later taught mathematics at the University of Vermont; same binding as LJS 206, which has inscription A. L. Daniels, Berlin-Göttingen, 1879-1883, 49 Mansfield Ave., Burlington, Vt., 1910, on front flyleaf).
   
• Formerly owned by Sydney Ross, professor of chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (bookplate, inside upper cover).
   
• Appears in 19th Century Shop's cat. 39, p. 23.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 38.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Mathematics--Study and teaching--19th century
• Calculus of variations

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, German--19th century
• Manuscripts, American--19th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

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Decorations

• 77 — Diagram, p. 77
• 87 — Diagram, p. 87
• 88 — Diagram, p. 88
• 142 — Diagram, p. 142
• 155 — Diagram, p. 155
• 252 — Diagram, p. 252
• 270 — Diagram, p. 270
• 288 — Diagram, p. 288
• 298 — Diagram, p. 298
• 311 — Diagram, p. 311
• 331 — Diagram, p. 331
• 340 — Diagram, p. 340