urn:taro:utexas.cah.00206 A Guide to the Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s Oral History Collection, 1984-1985 Text converted and initial EAD tagging done by Kristy Sorensen on June 19, 2003 Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:29:14 CDT 2003 urn:taro:utexas.cah.00206 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Descriptive Summary Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s Oral History Collection 1984-1985 86-23 3 in. Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Transcripts of oral history interviews with 43 individuals concerning their memories of mathematics at Princeton University during the 1930s. English. Scope and Contents

Transcripts of oral history interviews with 43 individuals concerning their memories of mathematics at Princeton University during the 1930s. The interviews focus on the institutional and social context of the Princeton graduate program and the Institute for Advanced Study as they developed, as well as the personalities of the people involved. Prominent individuals involved with Princeton in the 1930s included James Alexander, Albert Einstein, Luther Eisenhart, Solomon Lefschetz, Marston Morse, Oswald Veblen, John von Neumann, Hermann Weyl and Eugene Wigner. Most of these individuals had died at the time of these interviews, however several faculty members as well as graduate students, visitors and permanent researchers took part in the oral history project. Arranged alphabetically by interviewee.

Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

 Use Restrictions

Collection stored offsite at the Collections Deposit Library. Please allow 48 hours for retrieval.

 Preferred Citation

Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s Oral History Collection, 1984-1985, Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

 Index Terms Subjects Aspray, William Gillespie, Charles Coulston Nebeker, Frederick Tucker, Albert W. (Albert William), 1905- Princeton University Mathematicians--Interviews. Related Material

Original tapes and transcripts are available at the Seeley G. Mudd Library at Princeton University. Copies of transcripts are also available at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and the Charles Babbage Institute in Minneapolis.

 Detailed Description of the Collection Interview transcripts: 1 Bardeen, John 1 Bargmann, Valentine 1 Brown, George W. 1 Cameron, Robert 1 Church, Alonzo 1 Cohen, Leon W. 1 Daly, Joseph 1 Duren, William L. 1 Eisenhart, Churchill 1 Flexner, William 1 Flood, Merrill 1 Foster, Alfred Leon and Ilse 1 Giese, John 1 Givens, James Wallace 1 Goldstine, Herman 1 Greenwood, Robert E. 1 Halperin, Israel 1 Henkin, Leon 1 Hoffmann, Banesh 1 Hooke, Robert 1 Jacobson, Nathan 1 Kemeny, John 1 Kleene, Stephen 1 Lehmer, Derrick and Emma 1 Levine, Jack 1 McShane, Edward J. 1 Montgomery, Deane 1 Mood, Alexander M. 1 Morrey, Frances 1 Robertson, Malcolm 1 Rosser, J. Barkley 1 Singleton, Robert 1 Snapper, Ernst 1 Taub, Abraham H. 1 Taylor, Angus E. 1 Tucker, Albert W. 1 Tukey, John 1 Walker, Robert 1 Whitney, Hassler 1 Wigner, Eugene 1 Wylie, Shaun