A Guide to the Albert Everett Cooper Papers, 1914-1925


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Cooper, Albert Everett, 1893-1960
	Title	Cooper (Albert Everett) Papers
	Dates:	1914-1925
	Abstract	Papers relate to the work of the group theorist A. E. Cooper (1893-1960) with Leonard E. Dickson on Dickson's The History of the Theory of Numbers.
	Accession No.	86-3
	Extent	3 in.
	Language	English.
	Repository:	Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

Group theorist A. E. Cooper (1893-1960; Ph.D.: University of Chicago, 1926) was a member of the University of Texas at Austin Mathematics Department, 1922-1960.

Scope and Contents

Papers relate to the work of the group theorist A. E. Cooper (1893-1960) with Leonard E. Dickson on Dickson's The History of the Theory of Numbers. Included are correspondence, notes, and reprints.

Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

Use Restrictions

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Index Terms

	Subjects
		Cooper, Albert Everett, 1893-1960,--Archives.
		Dickson, Leonard E. (Leonard Eugene), 1874-
		University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Mathematics.
		Group theory
		Number theory

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Albert Everett Cooper Papers, 1914-1925, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Inventory:

Box

AAM-MNR/1

Letters from Professor A. A. Bennett (then at U. T.) to Cooper (then a graduate student at Chicago), ca. 1925

Letter from Professor H. S. Vandiver to Cooper, ca. 1925

Letter from Vandiver to Professor L. E. Dickson at the University of Chicago, ca. 1920s

Three Vandiver reprints, undated

Various reprints, undated

Loose notes:

Written on the back of page proofs from Dickson's book History of the Theory of Numbers, issued in the 1920s

Whole pages with letters to Dickson and other pages that might be first drafts later incorporated into Dickson's book, undated

Loose notes apparently written by various authors, may be proof sheets given to members of Dickson's graduate class at the University of Chicago for the purpose of verifying references, ca. 1920s