References for Robert Adrain

1. D J Struik, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900047.html

Articles:

2. J J Coolidge, Robert Adrain and the beginning of American mathematics, Amer. Math. Monthly 33 (1926), 61-76.
3. J Dutka, Robert Adrain and the method of least squares, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 41 (2) (1990), 171-184.
4. E R Hogan, Robert Adrain : American mathematician, HHistoria Math. 4 (1977), 157-172.
5. E R Hogan, Robert Adrain, American National Biography 1 (Oxford, 1999), 171-172.
6. O B Sheynin, R Adrain's works in the theory of errors and its applications (Russian), Istor.-Mat. Issled. 16 (1965), 325-336.

July 2000