R. Keith Dennis Mathematician Print and Photo collection, circa 1850-1950.
Collection Number: 8565

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
R. Keith Dennis Mathematician Print and Photo collection, circa 1850-1950.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
8565
Abstract:
Collection consists namely of prints, portraits and photographs of mathematicians.
Creator:
Dennis, R. Keith.
Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944.
Scripta mathematica
Quanitities:
.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

R. Keith Dennis is a Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University with a focus area on commutative and non-commutative algebra, algebraic K-theory, group theory, and mathematical bibliography.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:

R. Keith Dennis Mathematician Print and Photo collection, #8565. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Scope and content

Collection consists namely of prints, portraits and photographs of mathematicians collected by Dennis. Notable historic figures in mathematics are represented. Several published portfolios, including editions of David Eugene Smith's Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians, containing prints and biographical information on the mathematicians are also included. Plates appear to often come from published works and in some cases include portions of text from the book from which they were removed. Also a panoramic photograph by Fenner showing the attendees of the 1946 annual meetings of the American Mathematical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Mathematical Association of America at Cornell University, photographed in front of Barton Hall.
SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Mathematicians
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs
Engravings (prints)
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Oversize items
Mapcase Folder 1
Panoramic photograph of 1946 mathematical convention
 August 19-23, 1946
Scope and Contents
Photograph by Fenner showing the attendees of the 1946 annual meetings of the American Mathematical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Mathematical Association of America at Cornell University, photographed in front of Barton Hall.
Mapcase Folder 1
Portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss
 Undated
Lithograph
Mapcase Folder 1
Portrait of Karl Weierstrass
 Undated
Reproduction of painting
Box 1 Folder 1
Individuals A-C
Scope and Contents
Includes: Raymond Archibald Aristotle Isaac Barrow Wilhelm Blaschke Tycho Brahe David Brewster William Byerly Gerolamo Cardano Rudolf Clausius Nicolaus Copernicus Georges Cuvier
Box 1 Folder 2
Individuals D-F
Scope and Contents
Includes: Jean le Rond d'Alembert H. Ted Davis Ernest de Jonquières René Descartes Ron DiPerna Martin Eichler Epicurus Leonhard Euler Victor Felber Augustin Fresnel
Box 1 Folder 3
Individuals G-I
Scope and Contents
Includes: Galileo Galilei Évariste Galois Carl Freidrich Gauss Sophie Germain James Joseph Glaisher Edmond Halley William Hamilton Oliver Heaviside Heinrich Hertz David Hilbert Shirley Hill Christiaan Huygens
Box 1 Folder 4
Individuals J-L
Scope and Contents
Includes: Fritz John Robert Kalaba Immanuel Kant Vladimir Karapetoff Johannes Kepler Cassius Keyser Felix Klein Joseph-Louis Lagrange Gabriel Lamé Pierre-Simon Laplace Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Joseph-Louis Liouville Alfred Loewy Gino Loria
Box 1 Folder 5
Individuals M-O
Scope and Contents
Includes: Kurt Mahler J. C. P. Miller Simon Newcomb Isaac Newton Amalie Noether
Box 1 Folder 6
Individuals P-R
Scope and Contents
Includes: Georges Papy Vilfredo Pareto Blaise Pascal George Peacock Charles Peirce Michael Pupin K. G. Ramanathan Herbert Robbins
Box 1 Folder 7
Individuals S-V
Scope and Contents
Includes: Lao Simons David Smith William Benjamin Smith Mary Somerville Benedict Spinoza Jacob Steiner Charles Steinmetz Henry Svoboda James Joseph Sylvester Giuseppe Tallini Paul Tannery Olga Taussky-Todd John Arthur Todd Pieter Venema Alexander von Humboldt
Box 1 Folder 8
Individuals W-Z
Scope and Contents
Includes: Alfred Whitehead Štefan Znám
Box 1 Folder 9
Multiple Individuals and Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents
Includes:Presentation of the Senior Wrangler to the Vice Chancellor , Camridge, January 1872.Trinty College A Century AgoK. H. W. Kruse, Leslie Comrie, J. T. PetersHerbert B. Dwight, Maurice Kraitchik, Horace Uhler
Box 1 Folder 10
David Hilbert
Books and Portfolios
Box 2
Das projektive Zeichnen nebst den für das Zeichnen wichtigsten Aufgaben aus der ebenen Geometrie
 1885
Scope and Contents
By Max Kleiber, published by Wilhelm Effenberger
Box 2
A Portfolio of Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians
 1896
Scope and Contents
By David Eugene Smith, published by The Open Court Publishing Company. Incomplete set, missing several pages. Includes: Pythagoras, Pierre de Fermat, Leonardo Bonacci (2 copies), Euclid, Gerolamo Cardano, Gottfried Wilhelm Liebnitz, John Napier, François Viète, Thales of Miletus, Blaise Pascal, Johann Bernoulli (2 copies), Jakob Bernoulli, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Gaspard Monge, Niccolo Tartaglia, Isaac Barrow (spelled Issac).
Box 2
Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians Portfolio Number One
 1936
Scope and Contents
By David Eugene Smith, puclished by Scripta Mathematica. Includes: Archimedes, Nicolaus Copernicus, François Viète, Galileo Galilei, John Napier, René Descartes, Isaac Newton (missing), Gottfried Wilhelm Liebnitz, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Carl Freidrich Gauss (missing), Nikolai Lobachevsky, James Joseph Sylvester.
Box 2
Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians Portfolio Number Two
 1938
Scope and Contents
By David Eugene Smith, puclished by Scripta Mathematica. Includes: Euclid, Gerolamo Cardano, Johannes Kepler, Pierre de Fermat (missing), Blaise Pascal, Leonhard Euler (missing), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, William Rowan Hamilton, Arthur Cayley (missing), Pafnuty Chebyshev, Henri Poincaré (missing).
Box 2
Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians Portfolio Number Two (copy 2)
 1938
Scope and Contents
By David Eugene Smith, puclished by Scripta Mathematica. Includes: Euclid (missing), Gerolamo Cardano, Johannes Kepler, Pierre de Fermat (missing), Blaise Pascal, Leonhard Euler (missing), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, William Rowan Hamilton, Arthur Cayley (missing), Pafnuty Chebyshev, Henri Poincaré (missing).
Box 2
Portraits of Famous Philosophers who were also Mathematicians
 1939
Scope and Contents
By Cassius Jackson Keyser, published by Scripta MathematicaIncludes: Pyhagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Roger Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Benedict Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, Charles Peirce
Box 2
Portraits of Famous Physicists
 1942
Scope and Contents
By Henry Crew, published by Scripta Mathematica. Includes: Galileo, Christiaan Huygens, Isaac Nweton, André-Marie Ampère, Augustin Fresnel, Michael Faraday, James Prescott Joule, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius, James Clerk Maxwell, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Henry Augustus Rowland.