Louis Charles Karpinski
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Died | January 25, 1956 | (aged 77)
Occupation | Mathematician |
Louis Charles Karpinski (5 August 1878[1] – 25 January 1956[2]) was an American mathematician.
Background
Louis Charles Karpinski was born on August 5, 1878, in
Career
At Columbia University, Karpinski became a fellow and a university extension lecturer. He taught at Berea College and at the Normal School in Oswego, New York, now SUNY Oswego. He then accepted a position at the University of Michigan, where he became a full professor of mathematics by 1919. He devoted his attention chiefly to the history and pedagogy of mathematics.[verification needed]
Karpinski served as the president of the History of Science Society from 1943 to 1944.[5]
Books
An authority on the history of science, Karpinski was collaborator on the Archivo di Storia della Scienza and author of The Hindu-Arabic Numerals[6] with David Eugene Smith (1911), Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of the Algebra of Al-Khowarizmi (1915), and Unified Mathematics with Harry Yandell Benedict and John William Calhoun (1913).
- The Hindu-Arabic Numerals (with David Eugene Smith). Boston: Ginn and Company, 1911.
- Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of the Algebra of Al-Khowarizmi, with an Introduction, Critical Notes and an English Version. New York: Macmillan Co., 1915.
- Mathematical Pamphlets (n.p.): (n.p.), 1915.
- Unified Mathematics (with Harry Y. Benedict and John W. Calhoun). Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1918 and 1922.
- The History of Arithmetic Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1925.
- Bibliography of the Printed Maps of Michigan, 1804–1880. Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1931.
- Historical Atlas of the Great Lakes and Michigan. Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1931.
- Bibliography of Mathematical Works Printed in America through 1850. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1940.
See also
- Robert of Chester
- al-Khwārizmī
References
- ^ a b c Who's who in Polish America. (1943). United States: Harbinger House. p. 195
- PMID 17787853.
- ^ 1900 US Federal Census, New York, Oswego, Oswego Ward 3, District 123, Page 7
- ^ Obituary of Marie Engesser Karpinski, Oswego Daily Times, August 15, 1904.
- ^ The History of Science Society "The Society: Past Presidents of the History of Science Society" Archived 2013-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 4 December 2013
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External links
- LCK as a chess player
- Mathematics Genealogy
- Louis C. Karpinski Mathematics Textbook Database
- Works by Louis Charles Karpinski at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Louis Charles Karpinski at Internet Archive
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