A Guide to the H. S. Wall Papers, 1902, 1929-1974, 2006


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Wall, H. S. (Hubert Stanley), 1902-
	Title	H. S. Wall Papers
	Dates:	1902, 1929-1974, 2006
	Abstract	Collection consists of the mathematical notes, publications, and teaching material of mathematician H. S. Wall (1902-1971).
	Accession No.	2000-088, 2002-076; 2006-073; 2006-121; 2006-137
	Extent	3 ft., 4 in.
	Language	Materials are written in English.
	Repository:	Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

Wall received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1927. He was a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin (1946-1971) where he directed the doctoral work of over 60 students. Wall employed the discovery-based method of teaching in his classroom. His research interests included continued fractions, Hellinger integrals, group theory, and infinite processes.

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of the mathematical notes, publications, and teaching material of mathematician H. S. Wall (1902-1971). Also includes some notes of J. S. MacNerney, one of Wall's students and a professor of mathematics at the University of North Carolina.

Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

Use Restrictions

The majority of these papers is stored remotely at CDL. Advance notice required for retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval.


Index Terms

	Subjects
		Mac Nerney, J. S. (John Sheridan), 1923-1979
		Wall, H. S. (Hubert Stanley), 1902- -- Archives
		University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Mathematics
		Lecture notes
		Mathematics -- Periodicals
		Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

H. S. Wall Papers, 1902, 1929-1974, 2006, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Acquisition Information

Accession 2006-073 was transferred from the University of Houston Special Collection and Archives Department.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Correspondence

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2006-073/5

MacNerney [includes mathematical work, bound], 1950-1958

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2006-073/1

General, 1948-1958

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2000-088/1

Class and seminar material, 1941-1948 and undated

Publications by Wall

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2000-088/1

"Selected Problems in Mathematical Analysis," 1955

"Theory of Equations," undated

Creative Mathematics, Austin: UT Press, 1963

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4RM180

Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions, Bronx, NY: Chelsea Publishing Co., 1948

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2000-088/1

Miscellany, undated

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2000-088/2

Offprints, 1931-1938

Offprints, 1940-1943

Offprints, 1944-1945

Offprints, 1946-1949

Offprints, 1953-1957

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2006-073/5

Offprints, 1931-1957

Mathematical work

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2006-073/1

Manuscripts:

"Calculus" [later became Creative Mathematics], 1956

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4RM180

"Calculus" [later draft?], undated

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2006-073/1

"Concerning the power series expansion of a continued fraction," undated

“Differential and Integral Calculus,” undated

Fundamental function theory, undated

“The Scientific Work of Edward Burr Van Vleck,” 1945 and undated

Monographs:

Northwestern University Contributions to Continued Fractions [includes 15 monographs authored or coauthored by Wall], 1929-1942

Research files:

Linear systems [includes Analysis Seminar Reports from Northwestern and “The Hellinger Solution of the Moment Problem”], 1942-1943 and undated

Mathematical notes, 1966 and undated

University of Texas at Austin

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2002-076/1

Course notes:

"Calculus" notes [Calculus 613 class], ca. 1951-1952

Notes [Theory of Equations 315], ca. 1951-1952

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2006-073/1

M. 697L [typed and handwritten notes], 1955-1956

Student work:

Chisolm, J. S. R., 1963

Darwin, James T., undated

Drobnies, Saul I., undated

Garrett, B. D., undated

Helton, Burrell W., undated

Lane, Ralph E., undated

MacNerney, J. S., undated

Murray, C. S., undated

Neuberger, J. W., undated

Parker, undated

Porcelli, Pasquale, undated

Roach, F. A., undated

Steib, Michael Lee, undated

Pure Mathematics Foundation of the Univerisity of Texas, 1952

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2002-076/1

MacNerney, J. S., "An Introduction to Analytic Functions With Theoretical Implications," The University of North Carolina, 1960

Works by others

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2006-073/1

Bisshopp, K. E. “The Use of Matrices and Normal Coordinates in the Solutions of Torsional Vibration Problems” [lecture delivered at Spring MAA meeting, Milwaukee, WI], May 13, 1944

Frevel, Ludo K. “Applications of the Explicit Expansion of Iterated Functions” [The Dow Chemical Company], undated

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RESTRICTED

Restricted [for conservation purposes]: Stieltjes, Thomas Jan, Recherches sur Les Fractions Continues, Paris, 1902, 2006

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The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1974 [dedicated to H. S. Wall], 1974

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Offprints, 1937-1968 and undated

Reid, W. T. Introduction to the Theory of Functions, Chicago: University of Chicago Bookstore, 1944

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Reprints [alphabetical by author]:

A-G

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2006-073/3

H-P

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2006-073/4

R-V

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2006-073/5

W-Z

Personal

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3W111

Four photographs [includes photocopy of letter from Wall’s son], circa 1930s