Re: [HM] Steggal

Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis@otenet.gr)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:31:39 -0300 (GMT+3)

I asked:

> I found in an Euclidean geometry book (in Greek) an interesting theorem
> attributed to STEGGAL.
>
> Does anyone know who Steggal was?

Ken Pledger kindly informed me that the name was misspelled:
The correct spelling is STEGGALL, and in the May's Bibliography are listed
two obituaries (p. 344)

After Ken's correction I searched the Net.

I located S's archive in Dundee University:

Recs C 3: John Edward Aloysius Steggall (1855-1935)
Professor of Mathematics (and Natural Philosophy until
1895), University College, Dundee, 1883-1933.
Manuscript addresses, lectures and notes on a variety of subjects
1882-1930, letter book 1904-1908, unbound correspondence 1899-1927,
miscellaneous papers 1891-1931, photographs c.1880s-1909.

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/s-recsc03.htm

Also a talk:

Talks given to the BSHM,
1971-1998

Mason, Hilary, J. E. A. Steggall, mathematics professor, University
College Dundee, 1882-1933, 26 Feb 1994

http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/past/talks.html

Thanks, Ken.

Antreas