By Lori Myers-Steele
Title: Louis C. Karpinski Collection, c. 1906-1940
ID: RG 09/9.29
Primary Creator: Karpinski, Louis Charles -- 1878-1956
Other Creators: Hutchins Library
Extent: 1.0 MS boxes
Arrangement: The collection consists of seven folders of records—primarily reprints of published pieces.
Subjects: Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Normal School, Berea College -- Faculty, Karpinski, Louis Charles -- 1878-1956., Mathematics -- Study and teaching., Mathematics.
Languages: English
Louis Charles Karpinski (1878 –1956) was an American mathematician born in Rochester, New York. Karpinski received a Teacher’s Diploma from Oswego State Normal School in 1897. In 1898, he went to Kentucky to teach at the normal department of Berea College. He would leave Berea in 1899 to enter Cornell University and would go on to receive his Dr. Phil. Nat. from the American College of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Universitat zu Strassburg in 1903. He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where he was a fellow and a university extension lecturer. In 1919, he accepted a position at the University of Michigan and became full professor of mathematics.
Dr. Karpinski devoted his attention chiefly to the history and pedagogy of mathematics and was also an authority on the history of both science and cartography. He served as the president of the History of Science Society from 1943-44.
Berea College -- Affiliated Schools -- Normal School
Berea College -- Faculty
Karpinski, Louis Charles -- 1878-1956.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Mathematics.
Repository: Berea College Special Collections and Archives Catalog
Access Restrictions: Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Use Restrictions: There are no restrictions on use of this material other than federal copyright regulations.
Preferred Citation: [Item], Louis C. Karpinski Collection, Special Collections & Archives, Berea College, Berea, KY.
Processing Information: The collection was arranged and a finding aid created by Lori A. Myers-Steele, Project Archivist, in February 2014.
