Louis Charles Karpinski

Louis Charles Karpinski (5 August 1878–25 January 1956) was an American mathematician born in Rochester, N. Y. and educated at Cornell and in Europe at Strassburg. He also studied (1909–1910) at Columbia, where he was a fellow and a university extension lecturer. He taught at Berea and at Oswego, N. Y. at the Normal School there, then accepted a position at Michigan where in 1919 he became full professor of mathematics. Dr. Karpinski devoted his attention chiefly to the history and pedagogy of mathematics. An authority on the history of science, he was collaborator on the Archivo di Storia della Scienza and author of The Hindu-Arabic Numerals, with D. G. Smith (1911), Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of the Algebra of Khowarzini (1915), and Unified Mathematics, with H. Y. Benedict and J. W. Calhoun (1913), and subsequently produced other publications.

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• Mathematics Genealogy
• LCK Mathematics Textbook Database

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