Louis Charles Karpinski (5 August 1878[1] – 25 January 1956[2]) was an American mathematician.
Louis Charles Karpinski | |
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| Born | August 5, 1878 |
| Died | January 25, 1956 (aged 77) |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
Background
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
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.
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