Samuel Barnett papers, 1909-1932.

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Samuel Barnett papers, 1909-1932.

The collection consists of 23 letters and the literary manuscript consisting of various drafts and notes of Barnett's unpublished book on "Probability." The correspondence includes four letters by Charles Sanders Pierce, 1909-1910; one by Arthur Kenyon Rogers, 1920; two by George A. Hutchinson, 1927; two by Charles M. Snelling, 1927; five by John Dewey, 1930-1932; and nine by Barnett to John Dewey, 1930-1932.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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Barnett, Samuel, 1850-1943.

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Samuel Barnett, educator and lawyer, was born 30 September 1850, in Washington, Georgia, and died 7 April 1943, in Atlanta, Georgia. Barnett received his A.B. degree from University of Georgia (1869), taught mathematics at Davidson College (1874-1876), attended special courses at Edinburgh (Scotland) University (1877-1878), taught physics at Louisiana State University (1878-1880), and practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia (1881-1943), specializing in corporate and insurance law. He published article...

Dewey, John, 1859-1952

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John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and graduated in 1879 from The University of Vermont. After graduation Dewey taught high school and published in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. In 1884 Dewey resumed his studies and earned a Ph. D. from John Hopkins University. Although he taught and remained primarily at Columbia University, he also taught or lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of California, Imp...

Rogers, Arthur Kenyon, 1868-1936

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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914

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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years, but is appreciated largely by his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics (and his founding of pragmatism). Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey between 1859 and 1891. From the description of Charles...