Author:James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
(1848–1928)

James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

Works

• On the law of facility of errors of observations, and on the method of least squares. (London, The Society, 1872)
• Report of the committee on mathematical tables (1873) with Arthur Cayley
• On the form of the cells of bees (London : Richard and John E. Taylor, 1873), also by Charles C. Miller
• On factor tables, with an account of the mode of formation of the factor table for the fourth million in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society volume 3, part 4 (1878)
• Biographical Notice of James Booth, LL. D., F.R.S. (London: Spottiswoode & Co, 1879)
• Solutions of the Cambridge Senate-house problems and riders for the year 1878, (London, Macmillan, 1879) ([solutionsofcambr00glaiiala external scan])
• Factor table for the fifth million, containing the least factor of every number not divisible by 2, 3, or 5 between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 (London, Taylor and Francis, 1880) (external scan)
• On Riccati's Equation and Its Transformations, and on Some Definite Integrals Which Satisfy Them. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 172 , pt. 3 (1882), pp.759–828.
• Various Papers and Notes: (chiefly Relating to Elliptic Functions) That Have Appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics and the Messenger of Mathematics (Cambridge, 1882.)
• Factor table for the sixth million, containing the least factor of every number not divisible by 2, 3, or 5 between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000. (London, Taylor and Francis, 1883) ([cu31924001533573 external scan])
• The Mathematical Tripos: A Presidential Address Delivered Before the London Mathematical Society, November 11, 1886. (London: C.F. Hodgson, 1886).
• Introduction to the Collected Mathematical Papers of Henry J S Smith in Biographical sketches and recollections (with early letters) of Henry John Stephen Smith (1896) (external scan)
• "Biographical notice" in The scientific papers of John Couch Adams, volume 1 edited by William Grylls Adams (1896) (external scan)
• The Messenger of mathematics. (Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., [etc.]), also by Charles Taylor and William Allen Whitworth

Contributions to EB9

• "Logarithms," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 14) (1882)
• "Tables, Mathematical," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)

Contributions to EB1911

• "Legendre, Adrien Marie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Logarithm," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Napier, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Table, Mathematical," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Translations

• World of Comets (1877) by Amédée Guillemin

Works about Glaisher

• James Whitbread Lee Glaisher by A. R. Forsyth, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume s1-4, Issue 2, 1 April 1929, pp.101–112.
• Obituary Notices: Fellows:- Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee, by H. H. Turner, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 89, February 1929, pp.300-308
• Dr. Glaisher and the Messenger of Mathematics, by G. H. Hardy, in Messenger of Mathematics, 58 (1929), pp.159–160.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

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This author died in 1928, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.