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  • Special Collections & Archives maintains archival and book collections regarding the history of mathematics, particularly in relation to geometry and computer science. The department holds 45 editions of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry and 110 nineteenth-century mathematic rare books. In addition, the department holds a manuscript by Auguste Bienaime Desire Pioch about calculus, a copy of Lorenzo Mascheroni’s manuscript about geometrical problems, and notebooks containing mathematical problems, solutions, and notes that belonged to Thomas Stowell. Moreover, the department retains the papers of some Waterloo faculty members including Donald Cowan, J. Wesley Graham, Ralph Stanton, and undergraduate student William Kindree.

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William Tutte notebook.

  • SCA421-GA491
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  • [194-?]

William Tutte's manuscript notebook from his time as a student at Trinity College Cambridge. Manuscript includes graphs and formulas regarding the Four colour theorem or the Four colour map theorem (considered the central problem in graph theory). Notebook includes a folder with annotations made by Tutte referring to the content and pages with his annotations divided into twelve sections.

Tutte, William Thomas