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New Archives of American Mathematics Collections
HISTORIA MATHEMATICA 20 (t993), 92-94
SOURCE This department welcomes correspondence, brief announcements, and article-length descriptions of collections of publications, correspondence, and archival material relevant to the history of mathematics. Manuscripts describing major collections (covering such matters as acquisition, size, scope, state of cataloging, and current and future availability) should follow the same standards as other articles. They will be abstracted and indexed like other articles, and authors will be supplied with free reprints.
New Archives of American Mathematics Collections FREDERIC F. BURCHSTED Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, SRH 2.109, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78713
The Archives of American Mathematics of the University of Texas at Austin Center for American History announces the availability of the following collections. This list supplements the list which appeared in Historia Mathematica 14 (1987), 366-374. Benedict (Harry Yandell), papers, 1895-1898. l0 in. In the papers of University of Texas at Austin professor and president Harry Yandell Benedict are his Harvard University graduate student notebooks (1895-1898) on courses of M. Brcher, W. E. Byerly, A. Hall, W. F. Osgood, and B. O. Peirce. Bing (R. H.), papers, 1948-1986.4 ft. R. H. Bing (1914-1986) was a geometric topologist at the University of Wisconsin (1947-1972) and the University of Texas at Austin (1973-1986). Records of Bing's research chiefly relate to the preparation of his The Geometric Topology of 3-Manifolds (1983). The correspondence is chiefly from the last few years of Bing's life. Included are research and lecture notes, drafts of publications, teaching material, newspaper clippings, preprints, and reprints. Eberlein (William Frederick), papers, 1936-1986. 16 ft. Collection documents the career of W. F. Eberlein largely at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Rochester. His research was in analysis, including ergodic theory, mean value theorems, numerical integration, functional and harmonic analysis, and applications to relativity and quantum theory, particularly internal symmetry and spinor analysis. The papers consist largely of research notes and drafts of published and unpublished articles. Notes for Eberlein's teaching are included. There are course notes from Eberlein's education at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University (1936-1942). Also included are correspondence, grant proposals, and mimeographed lecture notes. 92 0315-0860/93 $5.00 Copyright© 1993by AcademicPress, Inc. All rightsof reproductionin any formreserved.
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Grosswald (Emil), papers, 1942-1988.9 ft. Collection documents the career of Emil Grosswald (1912-1989) in analytic number theory, largely at the University of Pennsylvania (1952-1968) and Temple University (1968-1989). There is correspondence with P. Bateman, H. Rademacher, J. A. Shohat, C. L. Siegel, and many others (1942-1988; 3 ft), together with manuscripts and letters related to Grosswald's articles and books, and his editing of works by Hans Rademacher (1942-1988; 15 in.). Grosswald's teaching and lecture notes are included (2 ft), as are notes on unpublished research (2 ft). Also included are records of Grosswald's work on the Mathematical Association of America's Board of Governors (1965-1968; 4 in.) and the Ford Award Committee (1970-1977; 1 in.). Halsted (George Bruce), collection, 1896-1926, 1936, 1950.2 ft. Contains family letters, autobiographical and genealogical items, and books, some annotated, from Halsted's library. There is a collection of Halsted's publications in the R. L. Moore papers, together with correspondence of Halsted and Moore. Lane (Ralph E.), papers, 1950-1961.1 ft. Papers document the research and teaching of Ralph E. Lane (1911-1962) at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Mathematics and Military Physics Research Laboratory. The papers consist largely of manuscripts, technical reports, and teaching notes reflecting Lane's interest in integration, probability and statistics, linear operators, and number theory. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, records, 1972-1987.65 ft. Editorial records of the journal Linear Algebra and Its Applications for the years 1972-1987. Additional material will be added periodically. Pollak (Henry 0.), records, 1956-1980.6 ft. Records document Pollak's presidency of the Mathematical Association of America (1975-1976) and other MAArelated work, particularly his work with the New Jersey section, the Women and Mathematics Committee, the Mathematics Olympiad, and the International Congress on Mathematical Education (1980). Rosser (J. Barkley), papers, 1938-1989. 11 ft. Papers document work of J. Barkley Rosser (1907-1989) on symbolic logic, number theory, rocket ballistics, and numerical analysis at Cornell University (1936-1962) and at the University of Wisconsin (1963-1973), where he was director of the U.S. Army Mathematics Research Center. The papers largely consist of manuscripts, notes and calculations, and correspondence, including abundant material on calculation of the zeros of L-series and of the Riemann zeta-function, and on prime number theory. There are records of Rosser's teaching (1948-1978) and invited lectures, and of the preparation of his Logic for Mathematicians and his Mathematics Research Center technical reports. Schoenberg (Isaac J.), papers, 1913-1986. 18 ft. Papers document research and teaching of Isaac J. Schoenberg (1903-1990) at the University of Chicago, Swarthmore, Colby College, the University of Pennsylvania (1941-1965), and the University of Wisconsin (1965-1977). The papers consist largely of files of notes, drafts, and calculations for published and unpublished papers, including material on Diophantine approximations, total positivity, distance geometry, integral transforms, approximation theory, and splines. There are correspondence files
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(1930-1987; 32 in.), manuscripts of lectures, and notebooks (1913-1926) from his education in Romania and Germany. Seever (Galen Lathrop), papers, 1958-1977.4 ft. Research and teaching materials documenting work of Galen Lathrop Seever (1934-1991) with the University of Texas at Austin, and his education at the University of California at Berkeley. He specialized in functional analysis. Van Heijenoort (Jean), papers, 1946-1992. 16 ft. An addition to the papers of Jean van Heijenoort (1912-1986) documents his research in mathematical logic and its history. The papers contain a set of van Heijenoort's reprints and manuscripts of published papers, together with unpublished manuscripts, lectures, and research notes (3 ft). Reprints, preprints, and photocopied manuscripts of others, some annotated and some with letters from the authors, are included (5 ft). Correspondents include A. Church, B. Dreben, K. G6del, S. C. Kleene, R. Martin, C. Parsons, W. V. Quine, and T. Skolem. Material donated by Irving Annelis, one of van Heijenoort's students, includes correspondence, biographical writings, and notes on van Heijenoort's courses. Further information on these and other collections can be found in the following articles and by writing the archivist (Fax: (512) 495-4542). Burchsted, F. F. 1987. Archives of American mathematics. Historia Mathematica 14, 366-374. Burchsted, F. F. 1989. Sources for the history of mathematics in the Archives of American Mathematics. In A Century o f Mathematics in America, Part III, pp. 667-674. Providence, RI: Amer. Math. Soc.
Francis Louis Miksa Fund at the Archives of American Mathematics The family of Francis Louis Miksa has established a fund in his memory at the Archives of American Mathematics in the Center for American History of the University of Texas at Austin. Francis Louis Miksa (1901-1975) was an amateur mathematician with broad interests, including number and group theory, combinatorics, and problem-solving. Mr. Miksa corresponded widely among amateur and professional mathematicians and collaborated with Leo Moser on several topics. His tables appeared in Mathematics of Computation and the U.S. National Bureau of Standards Handbook of Mathematical Functions. His papers are housed at the Archives of American Mathematics. As the Francis Louis Miksa Fund grows, income will be used for special programs which enhance the development and utilization of the Archives of American Mathematics. These uses may include oral history interviews with prominent mathematicians and provision of travel grants for users of the Archives of American Mathematics without institutional support. For further information, please write to Dr. Frederic Burchsted, Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, SRH 2.109, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78713; call (512) 495-4129 or (512) 495-4515; or Fax (512) 495-4542.
SOURCE This department welcomes correspondence, brief announcements, and article-length descriptions of collections of publications, correspondence, and archival material relevant to the history of mathematics. Manuscripts describing major collections (covering such matters as acquisition, size, scope, state of cataloging, and current and future availability) should follow the same standards as other articles. They will be abstracted and indexed like other articles, and authors will be supplied with free reprints.
New Archives of American Mathematics Collections FREDERIC F. BURCHSTED Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, SRH 2.109, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78713
The Archives of American Mathematics of the University of Texas at Austin Center for American History announces the availability of the following collections. This list supplements the list which appeared in Historia Mathematica 14 (1987), 366-374. Benedict (Harry Yandell), papers, 1895-1898. l0 in. In the papers of University of Texas at Austin professor and president Harry Yandell Benedict are his Harvard University graduate student notebooks (1895-1898) on courses of M. Brcher, W. E. Byerly, A. Hall, W. F. Osgood, and B. O. Peirce. Bing (R. H.), papers, 1948-1986.4 ft. R. H. Bing (1914-1986) was a geometric topologist at the University of Wisconsin (1947-1972) and the University of Texas at Austin (1973-1986). Records of Bing's research chiefly relate to the preparation of his The Geometric Topology of 3-Manifolds (1983). The correspondence is chiefly from the last few years of Bing's life. Included are research and lecture notes, drafts of publications, teaching material, newspaper clippings, preprints, and reprints. Eberlein (William Frederick), papers, 1936-1986. 16 ft. Collection documents the career of W. F. Eberlein largely at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Rochester. His research was in analysis, including ergodic theory, mean value theorems, numerical integration, functional and harmonic analysis, and applications to relativity and quantum theory, particularly internal symmetry and spinor analysis. The papers consist largely of research notes and drafts of published and unpublished articles. Notes for Eberlein's teaching are included. There are course notes from Eberlein's education at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University (1936-1942). Also included are correspondence, grant proposals, and mimeographed lecture notes. 92 0315-0860/93 $5.00 Copyright© 1993by AcademicPress, Inc. All rightsof reproductionin any formreserved.
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Grosswald (Emil), papers, 1942-1988.9 ft. Collection documents the career of Emil Grosswald (1912-1989) in analytic number theory, largely at the University of Pennsylvania (1952-1968) and Temple University (1968-1989). There is correspondence with P. Bateman, H. Rademacher, J. A. Shohat, C. L. Siegel, and many others (1942-1988; 3 ft), together with manuscripts and letters related to Grosswald's articles and books, and his editing of works by Hans Rademacher (1942-1988; 15 in.). Grosswald's teaching and lecture notes are included (2 ft), as are notes on unpublished research (2 ft). Also included are records of Grosswald's work on the Mathematical Association of America's Board of Governors (1965-1968; 4 in.) and the Ford Award Committee (1970-1977; 1 in.). Halsted (George Bruce), collection, 1896-1926, 1936, 1950.2 ft. Contains family letters, autobiographical and genealogical items, and books, some annotated, from Halsted's library. There is a collection of Halsted's publications in the R. L. Moore papers, together with correspondence of Halsted and Moore. Lane (Ralph E.), papers, 1950-1961.1 ft. Papers document the research and teaching of Ralph E. Lane (1911-1962) at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Mathematics and Military Physics Research Laboratory. The papers consist largely of manuscripts, technical reports, and teaching notes reflecting Lane's interest in integration, probability and statistics, linear operators, and number theory. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, records, 1972-1987.65 ft. Editorial records of the journal Linear Algebra and Its Applications for the years 1972-1987. Additional material will be added periodically. Pollak (Henry 0.), records, 1956-1980.6 ft. Records document Pollak's presidency of the Mathematical Association of America (1975-1976) and other MAArelated work, particularly his work with the New Jersey section, the Women and Mathematics Committee, the Mathematics Olympiad, and the International Congress on Mathematical Education (1980). Rosser (J. Barkley), papers, 1938-1989. 11 ft. Papers document work of J. Barkley Rosser (1907-1989) on symbolic logic, number theory, rocket ballistics, and numerical analysis at Cornell University (1936-1962) and at the University of Wisconsin (1963-1973), where he was director of the U.S. Army Mathematics Research Center. The papers largely consist of manuscripts, notes and calculations, and correspondence, including abundant material on calculation of the zeros of L-series and of the Riemann zeta-function, and on prime number theory. There are records of Rosser's teaching (1948-1978) and invited lectures, and of the preparation of his Logic for Mathematicians and his Mathematics Research Center technical reports. Schoenberg (Isaac J.), papers, 1913-1986. 18 ft. Papers document research and teaching of Isaac J. Schoenberg (1903-1990) at the University of Chicago, Swarthmore, Colby College, the University of Pennsylvania (1941-1965), and the University of Wisconsin (1965-1977). The papers consist largely of files of notes, drafts, and calculations for published and unpublished papers, including material on Diophantine approximations, total positivity, distance geometry, integral transforms, approximation theory, and splines. There are correspondence files
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(1930-1987; 32 in.), manuscripts of lectures, and notebooks (1913-1926) from his education in Romania and Germany. Seever (Galen Lathrop), papers, 1958-1977.4 ft. Research and teaching materials documenting work of Galen Lathrop Seever (1934-1991) with the University of Texas at Austin, and his education at the University of California at Berkeley. He specialized in functional analysis. Van Heijenoort (Jean), papers, 1946-1992. 16 ft. An addition to the papers of Jean van Heijenoort (1912-1986) documents his research in mathematical logic and its history. The papers contain a set of van Heijenoort's reprints and manuscripts of published papers, together with unpublished manuscripts, lectures, and research notes (3 ft). Reprints, preprints, and photocopied manuscripts of others, some annotated and some with letters from the authors, are included (5 ft). Correspondents include A. Church, B. Dreben, K. G6del, S. C. Kleene, R. Martin, C. Parsons, W. V. Quine, and T. Skolem. Material donated by Irving Annelis, one of van Heijenoort's students, includes correspondence, biographical writings, and notes on van Heijenoort's courses. Further information on these and other collections can be found in the following articles and by writing the archivist (Fax: (512) 495-4542). Burchsted, F. F. 1987. Archives of American mathematics. Historia Mathematica 14, 366-374. Burchsted, F. F. 1989. Sources for the history of mathematics in the Archives of American Mathematics. In A Century o f Mathematics in America, Part III, pp. 667-674. Providence, RI: Amer. Math. Soc.
Francis Louis Miksa Fund at the Archives of American Mathematics The family of Francis Louis Miksa has established a fund in his memory at the Archives of American Mathematics in the Center for American History of the University of Texas at Austin. Francis Louis Miksa (1901-1975) was an amateur mathematician with broad interests, including number and group theory, combinatorics, and problem-solving. Mr. Miksa corresponded widely among amateur and professional mathematicians and collaborated with Leo Moser on several topics. His tables appeared in Mathematics of Computation and the U.S. National Bureau of Standards Handbook of Mathematical Functions. His papers are housed at the Archives of American Mathematics. As the Francis Louis Miksa Fund grows, income will be used for special programs which enhance the development and utilization of the Archives of American Mathematics. These uses may include oral history interviews with prominent mathematicians and provision of travel grants for users of the Archives of American Mathematics without institutional support. For further information, please write to Dr. Frederic Burchsted, Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, SRH 2.109, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78713; call (512) 495-4129 or (512) 495-4515; or Fax (512) 495-4542.