Louis Charles Karpinski

Louis Charles Karpinski
Born	(1878-08-05)August 5, 1878 Rochester, New York, US
Died	January 25, 1956(1956-01-25) (aged 77)
Occupation	Mathematician

Louis Charles Karpinski (5 August 1878 – 25 January 1956) was an American 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 Guebweiler, Alsace. He was educated at Cornell University and in Europe at Strassburg. Karpinski also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia.

Career

At Columbia, Karpinski became a fellow and a university extension lecturer. He taught at Berea College and at Oswego, New York at the Normal School there. Then, he accepted a position at the University of Michigan, where by 1919 he became full professor of mathematics. Dr. Karpinski devoted his attention chiefly to the history and pedagogy of mathematics.

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, with David Eugene Smith (1911), Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of the Algebra of Al-Khowarizmi (1915), and Unified Mathematics, with H. Y. Benedict and J. W. Calhoun (1913), and subsequently produced other publications. He served as the president of the History of Science Society from 1943–44.

• 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.
• 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.

See also

• Robert of Chester
• al-Khwārizmī

External links

• LCK as a chess player
• Mathematics Genealogy
• Louis C. Karpinski Mathematics Textbook Database
• Works by Louis Charles Karpinski at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Louis Charles Karpinski at the Internet Archive

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)