Sending problems in functional analysis. Please send his manuscript on functions to Devonshire Place.
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
Sending problems in functional analysis. Please send his manuscript on functions to Devonshire Place.
Has received his paper, which will be laid before the R.S.L. as soon as he has an opportunity. Is obliged to him for compressing the matter to so small a compass.
Sends paper on fluxions written for Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Uses new formulas, dispensing with binomial theorem. Brings logarithmic and exponential formulae within power of common algebraic processes.
WW's elegant presentation of doctrine of limits is best basis for elementary treatise but not for extensive work, because it involves imaginary functions. Charles Babbage is making progress in theory of functional equations.
Expects JH for dinner Friday. JH's old friend Ianetta learned that she is descended from Scotland's Queen Annabella.
Expresses gratitude for watching over JH's interests in his absence.
Upbraids JH for not writing, and announces the birth of his daughter, Anne.
Talks about the law, especially now that JH has begun his study of it.
Complains that JG had to discover from strangers that JH was ill.
Distressed to hear JH is giving up law; family news.
Sends best wishes on JH returning to St. John's to teach; about books JG has read and some of his cases.