Mathematics
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John Morton Ledgers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2579
Overview
Diaries, account books, and a surveyor's handbook belonging to John Morton, a farmer of Hollidays Cove, Brooke County, West Virginia. The surveyor's book includes lessons on logarithm, geometry, plane trigonometry, and surveying. The diaries and account books record Morton's life and significant events of the period. There is also an undated land deed, a property list of Morton's father, John Morton, and some genealogical information.
Dates:
1840-1902
Katherine G. Johnson, Mathematician, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4536
Scope and Contents
Papers of Katherine G. Johnson. Includes assorted artifacts, family photographs, awards, honorary degrees, correspondence, and other material regarding the career and life of Katherine G. Johnson. The bulk of the collection is focused on material relating to the release of the 2016 film Hidden Figures while other material details Katherine Johnson's early life and her family history. Such material includes news clippings, magazine...
Dates:
1800-2021, bulk 2016-2021
Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Land Grant
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0892
Scope and Contents
A land grant signed by Wyndham Robertson, Esq; Lt. Gov. of Virginia, granting land in Preston County to Abraham Listons, Mar 17, 1835 ; and a bound manuscript workbook containing mathematical exercises in reduction of vulgar (improper) fractions, ca. 1840
Dates:
1835-1840