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Louis Charles Karpinski

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Louis Charles Karpinski
Born(1878-08-05)August 5, 1878
DiedJanuary 25, 1956(1956-01-25) (aged 77)
OccupationMathematician

Louis Charles Karpinski (5 August 1878[1] – 25 January 1956[2]) was an American mathematician.

Background

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Louis Charles Karpinski was born on August 5, 1878, in Rochester, New York. His parents were Henry Hermanagle Karpinski of Warsaw, Poland and Mary Louise Engesser of Guebwiller, France.[1][3][4] He earned his Bachelor of Arts at Cornell University in 1901 and his Ph.D. at Universität Straßburg in 1903.[1]

Career

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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

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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).

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Who's who in Polish America. (1943). United States: Harbinger House. p. 195
  2. ^ Jones, Phillip S. (1956). "Louis C. Karpinski, Historian of Mathematics". Science. 124 (3210): 19. Bibcode:1956Sci...124...19J. doi:10.1126/science.124.3210.19. PMID 17787853.
  3. ^ 1900 US Federal Census, New York, Oswego, Oswego Ward 3, District 123, Page 7
  4. ^ Obituary of Marie Engesser Karpinski, Oswego Daily Times, August 15, 1904.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ McKelvey, J. V. (1915). "Book Review: The Hindu-Arabic Numerals". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 21 (4): 202–204. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1915-02609-1.
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