Now that Commencement has passed and the campus has calmed, are you thinking summer about travel plans? Here’s some inspiration from the University Archives: three travel diaries from three very different writers and from very different times and circumstances. […]
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Loaded Dice
Currently on view in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is a small but fascinating exhibition of dice, from the Smith Collection of Mathematical Instruments. They date from the Roman era to the early 20th century. David Eugene Smith (1860-1944) was a professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University. He used these dice in […]