MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION


MS 017 – WEATHERBURN, C E (18 Jun 1884 - 18 Oct 1974)
Mathematician

Weatherburn was lecturer in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, University of Melbourne 1911-23 and later Professor of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia 1929-50.


17/1

  1. Differential geometry of three dimensions by CEW (Professor of Mathematics at Canterbury College, University of NZ). Cambridge University Press, 1927. Manuscript of Volume I, preliminaries and chapters I - VI

  2. Differential geometry of three dimensions. Volume I, chapter VII to conclusion


17/2

  1. Differential geometry of three dimensions. Volume II, chapters I to VI

  2. Differential geometry of three dimensions. Volume II, chapters VII to XIII. Cambridge University Press, 1930


17/3

  1. A first course in mathematical statistics, by C E Weatherburn, Professor of Mathematics, University of WA, 1946. Typescript, with handwritten notes and additions.

  2. *Second copy of above


17/4

  1. The application of integral equations to mathematical physics. Typescript DSc thesis, University of Sydney, 1916

  2. Manuscripts and drafts of some published papers. 7 manuscripts, 5 rough drafts and 1 printer's proof

  3. Two handwritten chapters on Affine Differential Geometry (1930-32). Originally intended to be the concluding chapters of Weatherburn's Differential geometry of N dimensions but owing to the depression this was published in a shorter form, omitting these chapters, as An introduction to Riemannian geometry and the tensor calculus (See MS 17/5, a & b)


17/5

  1. An introduction to Riemannian geometry and the tensor calculus (handwritten manuscript)

  2. The book of the above manuscript, published in 1938 by Cambridge University Press

  3. Elementary vector analysis. Typescript and printed extracts with handwritten notes New and revised edition, largely rewritten, published 1955


17/6

  1. *A first course in mathematical statistics. Handwritten manuscript of chapters I - VII

  2. *A first course in mathematical statistics. Handwritten manuscript of chapters VIII - XI

  3. *A first course in mathematical statistics. Typescript of Part I, chapters I - VI

  4. *A first course in mathematical statistics. Typescript of Part II, chapters VII - XII

*Additional material received on 30 July 1975

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