Descriptive Summary
Price, G. Baley (Griffith Baley),
1905-
G. Baley Price
Papers
1932-1993
93-372
7 ft.
Center for American History,The
University of Texas at Austin
G. Baley Price (1905- )
was a professor of mathematics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence from
1937-1975. This collection includes correspondence, committee files and printed
material documenting his work
English.
Biographical Note
G. Baley Price (1905- ) was a professor of mathematics at the
University of Kansas, Lawrence from 1937-1975, including a term as chair of the
department from 1951-1970. Price helped to establish the School Mathematics
Study Group and was intimately involved with its development and spread of the
"New Math." A former president of the Mathematical Association of America, he
was awarded their Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics in 1970. In
addition, Price was a civilian operations analyst at the headquarters of the
Eighth Air Force in England (1943-1945). Price is the author of a history of
his experiences with mathematics during World War II, as well as a history of
the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, committee files and printed
material documenting Price's work with the Mathematical Association of America,
the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and professional articles and papers
written by Price on the subject of mathematics.
Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics
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Preferred Citation
G. Baley Price Papers, 1932-1993, Archives of American Mathematics,
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Index Terms
Subjects
Price, G. Baley (Griffith Baley),
1905-.
American Mathematical
Society.
Mathematical Association of
America.
School Mathematics Study
Group.
United States. Air Force, 8th.
Operational Analysis Section.
University of Kansas. Dept. of
Mathematics.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching --
United States.
Related Material
Air Force Operations Analysis Section Records, Archives of American
Mathematics, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
G. Baley Price Papers, University Archives, Special
Collections, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Detailed Description of the Collection
Inventory
93-372/1
Letters of appreciation, U.S. Air Force Operations
Analysis,
1944-1946
93-372/1
Reprints of G. Baley Price literary productions,
1932-1993
93-372/1
"Mathematical Aspects of Philosophical Thought," by
George D. Birkhoff,
undated
93-372/1
Program for College Preparatory
Mathematics, with letter from the Commission on Mathematics, (2
copies)
April 9, 1959
93-372/1
Appendices, (2
copies)
1959
93-372/1
President, Mathematical Association of America,
November 1, 1956-September
1958
93-372/1
Committee and other appointments, Washington Conference,
1958
93-372/1
AMS and MAA meeting, Penn State,
August 26-30,
1957
93-372/1
Committee to Study the Activities of the Association,
September 1957
93-372/1
Council and Trustees of the American Mathematical
Society
93-372/2
Division of Mathematics National Research Council,
1955-1958
93-372/2
Films for USAF I, Calvin Company,
1957-1958
93-372/2
Production of films for Calvin Company,
1958
93-372/2
Harvard University, John Winthrop House,
1957
93-372/2
Linear Topological Spaces,
September 1957
93-372/2
Herbert, Dr. Homer,
1958
93-372/2
Mountain, H.fA.,
1958-1959
93-372/2
Travel Fund,
1957-1958
93-372/2
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
1957-1958
93-372/2
National Science Foundation, correspondence,
1958
93-372/2
Commission on Mathematics,
1956-1958
93-372/2
Continental Classroom,
1959
93-372/2
Caffyn, Lois, Curriculum Supervisor,
1958
93-372/2
Jackson, Frederick H., Carnegie Corporation,
1957-1958
93-372/2
Regional Consultant, STIP, J.R. Mayor (Math Department
Development Fund),
1956-1959
93-372/2
Project West Wind,
1952
93-372/2
Dr. Price, incoming correspondence,
1952-1953
93-372/2
Dr. Price (personal),
1952
93-372/2
Dr. Price, outgoing letters,
1952
93-372/2
National Research Council,
1958-1959
93-372/2
Committees of the Mathematical Association of America,
1958
93-372/2
Congressional Record Digest,
1958-1959
93-372/2
Board of Governors, MAA, (empty folder)
1959
93-372/2
Committee on the Undergraduate Program,
1956-1958
93-372/2
Operations Research Society of America,
1952-1953
93-372/2
Board of Govenors, MAA,
1950-1956
93-372/2
Committee on Expository Lectures, MAA,
October 1951
93-372/2
Temporary Chairman Conference Board,
1958
93-372/2
President, Mathematical Association of America,
October 1958- February
1959
93-372/3
MAA, AMS Cambridge Meeting,
August 25-29,
1958
93-372/3
Correspondence,
1937-1939
93-372/3
MAA Project,
1938
93-372/3
American Mathematical Society,
1939
93-372/3
AMS Summer Meeting,
1938
93-372/3
Didactic Section, 1940 International Congress
Committee,
1940
93-372/3
International Congress of Mathematics,
1940
93-372/3
Societies, MAA, AAAS, AMS, Kansas Academy of Science,
1937-1939
93-372/3
Sigma Xi,
1934-1936
93-372/3
Mathematics Department,
1935-1936
93-372/3
University,
1935-1936
93-372/3
American Council on Education, Washington D.C.,
October 10-11,
1957
93-372/3
NEA Meeting, Washington,
December 3, 1957
93-372/3
Indianapolis Meetings,
December 26-27,
1957
93-372/3
Cincinnati Meeting of the MAA and AMS,
January 28-31,
1957
93-372/3
Meeting at Hunter College,
January 20, 1958
93-372/3
Meeting at U. S. Office of Education, Washington D.C.,
February 10-11,
1958
93-372/3
MIT Meeting, Mina Rees, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
February 28-March 1,
1958
93-372/3
AAAS Parliament of Science, Washington D.C.,
March 15-17,
1958
93-372/3
Meeting of NCTM, Cleveland, Ohio,
April 11, 1958
93-372/3
Meeting on draft report, Commission on Mathematics,
May 14, 1958
93-372/3
Second Conference on Mathematics Instruction,
Washington,
May 13-14, 1957
93-372/3
NSF Academic Year Institute, Advisory Panel, Washington,
D.C.,
September 18-19,
1957
93-372/3
AEC Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
August 16, 1957
93-372/3
Conference on University Development,
March 22, 1958
93-372/3
MAA Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
May 16-18, 1958
93-372/3
Dr. J. R. Killian, Jr., Washington, D.C.,
June 11, 1958
93-372/3
Correspondence,
1959
93-372/3
Printed material,
1927-1967
93-372/3
Directory, Harvard University,
1928-1932
93-372/4
School Mathematics Study Group, Yale University,
June 23-July 19,
1958
93-372/4
Advisory Committee, School Mathematics Study Group,
1958-1959
93-372/4
School Mathematics Study Group, Advisory Committee
Meeting, Hunter College,
April 30, 1958
93-372/4
Rand Corporation, John D. Williams,
1958-1959
93-372/4
Throckmorton, Adel F.,
1958
93-372/4
Meeting, Committee on the Undergraduate Program,
Washington,
November 15-16,
1958
93-372/4
Washington on the Committee on the Undergraduate
Program,
1958
93-372/4
M. H. Trytten, NAS-NRC, meeting in Washington, D.C.,
November 19,
1958
93-372/4
Meeting, Centennial Classroom, New York City,
December 4, 1958
93-372/4
Meeting, Committee on the Undergraduate Program, New
York City,
December 29-30,
1958
93-372/4
Trip to Washington, D.C.,
January 9-11,
1959
93-372/4
MAA and AMS Meetings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
January 20-24,
1958
93-372/4
Mathematics Subcommittee KSTA Committee on
Coordination
93-372/4
Committee on the Undergraduate Program,
1959
93-372/4
School Mathematics Study Group, Advisory Committee
Meeting,
January 24,
1959
93-372/4
Conference on Elementary School Mathematics, Chicago,
February 13-14,
1959
93-372/4
H. F. Bohnenblust, California Institute of Technology,
April 4-6, 1959
93-372/4
Kansas Section, MAA, Salina,
April 11, 1959
93-372/4
Missouri Section, MAA, St. Louis,
April 25, 1959
93-372/4
MAA Conference, Summer Institute Instructors, St. Louis,
May 2, 1959
93-372/4
Bohnenblust, Washington Office Meeting, New York City,
May 4, 1959
93-372/4
Symposium on Basic Research, New York City,
May 14-15, 1959
93-372/4
NSF Meeting, Washington, Harry C. Kelly,
May 18-19, 1959
93-372/4
Committee on the Undergraduate Program, New York City,
May 26-27, 1959
93-372/4
National TEPS Conference, University of Kansas,
June 23-26, 1959
93-372/4
Invitations to speak,
1958-1959
93-372/5
International Congress of Mathematicians, Edinburgh,
1958
93-372/5
NSF Summer Institutes Panel, Washington, D.C.,
September 12-13,
1958
93-372/5
Emporia Meeting of School Board,
September 19,
1958
93-372/5
Washington and Charlottesville,
October 2-5,
1958
93-372/5
Trip to New York,
October 11-13,
1958
93-372/5
Conference for the Advancement of Science and
Mathematics Teaching, Austin, Texas,
October 23-25,
1958
93-372/5
Meeting, U. S. Office of Education Secretary, Arthur S.
Fleming, Washington, D. C.,
November 5, 1958
93-372/5
Speakers for Kansas State Teachers Association,
November 7, 1958
93-372/5
MAA visiting lecturer, May 7-19,
1955-1956
93-372/5
NSF Summer Institute, Ann Arbor,
1956
93-372/5
National Science Foundation, meeting of regional
representatives, Washington,
November 14,
1956
93-372/5
Vanderwerf's committee, Ford Foundation Proposal,
1956
93-372/5
Duren textbook project,
Summer 1954
93-372/5
Meeting at Rock Island, Illinois,
October 6, 1956
93-372/5
Notes,
undated
93-372/5
Correspondence,
1955-1958
93-372/5
Printed materials,
1954-1958
93-372/6
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
January 1953
93-372/6
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
May 1, 1951
93-372/6
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
1957-1959
93-372/6
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
1955-1957
93-372/6
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
1950
93-372/6
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
January 1, 1952-
93-372/6
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
1950
93-372/6
Office of Ordnance Research,
1952
93-372/6
Committee on Controversial Questions, AMS,
1952
93-372/6
AMS Vari-type Committee,
1952-1954
93-372/6
Council, AMS,
1952-1954
93-372/6
American Mathematical Society,
1949-1957
93-372/6
The Scottish Book,
1959
93-372/6
Record of manuscripts received for the Bulletin,
1950-1957
93-372/7
Committee on Fellowships (Postdoctoral), National
Research Council,
1956-1959
93-372/7
Committee on Educational Policy, National Research
Council,
1957-1958
93-372/7
Committee on Educational Policy, National Research
Council,
1955-1958
93-372/7
Committee on Educational Policy, National Research
Council, Folder Number 2,
August 13,
1957
93-372/7
Materials Portfolio, Area Conference on Mathematics and
Science Teaching, The Defiance College, Defiance , Ohio,
December 30,
1957
93-372/7
Committee to Cooperate with the American Institute of
Graphic Arts,
1950-1953
93-372/7
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
1957
93-372/7
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
January 1,
1956
93-372/7
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
January 1955
93-372/7
American Mathematical Society,
1946-1955
93-372/7
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society, Samson Case,
1953
93-372/7
Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society,
January 1954
93-372/7
Math Reviews, subscribers,
December 11,
1939