References for Thomas Carlyle

1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]
2. Obituary in The Times.
3. Biography by Fred Kaplan, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

Books:

4. I Campbell, Thomas Carlyle (Saltire Society, 1974).
5. W H Dunn, Froude and Carlyle : a Study of the Froude-Carlyle Controversy (New York, 1930)
6. J A Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of Life, 1795-1835 (Longmans, 1882, reprinted 1970).
7. J A Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 (Longmans, 1890, reprinted 1969).
8. S Heffer, Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995).
9. T Holme, The Carlyles at Home (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979).
10. F Kaplan, Thomas Carlyle (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983).
11. C R Sanders, K J Fielding and C de L Ryals, The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (25 vols.) (Duke University Press, Durham DC, 1970).

Articles:

12. A D D Craik, Geometry versus analysis in early 19th-century Scotland : John Leslie, William Wallace, and Thomas Carlyle, Historia Math. 27 (2) (2000), 133-163.
13. W Johnson. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) - Early attracted to proportion and geometry, Internat. J. Impact Eng. 21 (1998), 327-330.
14. C Moore, Carlyle, mathematics and 'Mathesis', in K J Fielding and R L Tarr (eds.), Carlyle past and present (Vision Press, New York, 1976), 61-95.
15. P A Wursthorn, The position of Thomas Carlyle in the history of mathematics, The Mathematics teacher (December 1966), 755-770.

February 2005