Descriptive Summary
Mathematical Association of America.
History of American Mathematics in World War II Committee.
Mathematical Association of
America. History of American Mathematics in World War II Committee
Records
1944-1967, 1978-1983
86-15; 89-8
10 in.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American
History, The University of Texas at
Austin
Records of the
Committee's work in documenting the history of American mathematics in World
War II.
Materials written in English.
Historical Note
This committee, formed in January 1980, was charged with planning a
project whose initial goals were to identify published works and issue
bibliographies as well as to locate unpublished sources and to encourage their
preservation and their proper description. In addition It recognized the need
for new personal memoirs and oral history interviews. More information on the
history of this committee can be found in its minutes. Members were: J. Barkley
Rosser (Chairman), Maynard J. Brichford, Churchill Eisenhart, Albert C. Lewis,
G. Baley Price, Mina Rees, and Nathan Reingold.
Scope and Contents
Records of the Committee's work in documenting the history of American
mathematics in World War II. The material consists largely of letters from
mathematicians active during World War II concerning historically valuable
material in their possession, and of reports concerning mathematical research
conducted during World War II. Included are letters, minutes, brief memoirs,
reports, reprints, photographs, cassette tapes.
Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics.
Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
Use Restrictions
The majority of these records are stored remotely. Advance notice required for
retrieval. Contact repository for retrieval. Audiotapes and photographs
are stored onsite, and do not require advance notice.
Preferred Citation
Mathematical Association of America. History of American Mathematics in
World War II Committee Records, 1944-1967, 1978-1983, Archives of American
Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Index Terms
Subjects
Mathematical Association of America.
History of American Mathematics in World War II Committee--Archives
Mathematics--History
World War, 1939-1945--Science
Other Authors
Brichford, Maynard J.
Eisenhart, Churchill.
Lewis, Albert C.
Price, G. Baley (Griffith Baley),
1905-
Rees, Mina.
Reingold, Nathan, 1927-
Rosser, J. Barkley (John Barkley),
1907-
Detailed Description of the Collection
Inventory:
1.3/64
Minutes, letters from Chairman, proposals to
NSF,
1980
1.3/64
Letters, brief memoirs, photographs, and offprints of
publications received in response to request by Committee of August 25,
1980:
1.3/64
Aroian, Leo A.
1.3/64
Arrow, Kenneth
1.3/64
Bennett, Richard D.
1.3/64
Birkhoff, Garrett
1.3/64
Cairns, S. S.
1.3/64
Churchill, R. V.
1.3/64
Cohn, Harvey
1.3/64
Curry, Haskell B.
1.3/64
Dubridge, Lee
1.3/64
Galbraith, Alan S.
1.3/64
Garabedian, Henry L.
1.3/64
Goldman, Alan
1.3/64
Goldstine, Herman H.
1.3/64
Kaplansky, Irving
1.3/64
Ketchum, Pierce W.
1.3/64
Koopman, B. O.
1.3/64
Leighton, Walter
1.3/64
Lewis, Daniel C.
1.3/64
McCarthy, Philip J.
1.3/64
McMillan, Brockway
1.3/64
Mood, Alexander M.
1.3/64
Morse, Philip M.
1.3/64
Mosteller, Frederick
1.3/64
Odle, John W.
1.3/64
Piranian, George
1.3/64
Pollard, Harry
1.3/64
Schoenberg, I. J.
1.3/64
Solomon, Herbert
1.3/64
Spencer, D. C.
1.3/64
Stibitz, G. R.
1.3/64
Taylor, Angus E.
1.3/64
Tribmle, Harold C.
1.3/64
Ulam, Stanislaw M.
1.3/64
Walker, Robert J.
1.3/64
Wolfowitz, Jacob
1.3/64
"Samuel S. Wilks and the Army Experiment Design Conference
Series" by C. Eisenhart (ARO Report 75-2),
undated
1.3/64
Letters sent to Churchill Eisenhart and Baley Price in
1978 cooperating with the Committee:
1.3/64
Birkhoff, Garrettt
1.3/64
Brier, Glenn W.
1.3/64
Bromberg, Eleazer
1.3/64
Cochran, William G.
1.3/64
Flood, Merrill M.
1.3/64
Fry, Thornton C.
1.3/64
Hay, G. E.
1.3/64
Kullback, Solomon
1.3/64
Leibler, Richard A.
1.3/64
McShane, E. J.
1.3/64
Morse, Philip M.
1.3/64
Mosteller, Frederick
1.3/64
Newsom, Carroll V.
1.3/64
Nyman, Jerzy
1.3/64
Odle, John W.
1.3/64
Paxson, Edwin W.
1.3/64
Prager, Wiliam
1.3/64
Rosser, J. Barkley
1.3/64
Simon, Leslie E.
1.3/64
Solomon, Herbert
1.3/64
Spencer, Donald C.
1.3/64
Taub, A. H.
1.3/64
Wilson, E. Bright
1.3/64
Wallis, W. Allen
1.3/64
Responses added to the collection in April
1981:
1.3/64
Berkeley, Edmund C.
1.3/64
Doob, J. L.
1.3/64
Garabedian, Paul R.
1.3/64
Greenwood, Robert E.
1.3/64
Gross, George L., [died October 24, 1980], reply from
Mrs. Gross
1.3/64
Hamming, Richard W.
1.3/64
Morrey, Charles B., Jr. [with letter from Mrs.
Morrey]
1.3/64
Quine, W. V.
1.3/64
Rotando, Louis M.
1.3/64
Salzer, Herbert E.
1.3/64
Zelinsky, Daniel
1.3/64
Response from Edgar E. Lorch, with photocopies of letters
concerning the Applied Mathematics Group, Columbia University, 1944-1945,
(relating to E. J. Moulton, Saunders MacLane, P. M. Morse, and George E.
Pegram), and Mathematics Advisory Board to U. S. Army, 1948-1949, (relating to
John Von Neumann, R. G. D. Richardson, J. R. Kline, Leo Zippin, and Herman
Goldstine),
December 11, 1980
1.3/64
Reprints and photocopies added to the collection in April
1981:
1.3/64
Spaatz, Carl, General, U. S. Army, Foreword to Leroy A.
Brothers, "Operations Analysis in World War II,"
1948
1.3/64
Curtiss, J. H., "The National Applied Mathematics
Laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards: A progress report covering
the first five years of its existence,"
1953
1.3/64
Kulcinski, G. L. et al., "Energy for the long run:
Fission or fusion?," American Scientist 67,
78-89
1.3/64
NCTM, "An Agenda for Action: Recommendations for School
Mathematics of the 1980s."
1980
1.3/64
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Peoria
meeting, Sections on computers,
March 27-29,
1980
1.3/64
Wald, Abraham, "A method of estimating plane
vulnerability based on damage of survivors," [1943],
1980
1.3/64
Photocopies added to the collection by C. Eisenhart, April
1981:
1.3/64
Shewhart, Walter A., "Report as of June 8, 1946 of
Chairman of the Subcommitee on Statistical Quality Control of the National
Research Council Committee on Applied Mathematical Science," six pages,
1946
1.3/64
Operations Analysis in World War II. U. S. Army Air
Forces, [lists operations analysts],
1948
1.3/64
Deming, W. Edwards, Elementary
Principles of the Statistical Control of Quality, A Series of Lectures.
Tokyo, first printing,
1950
1.3/64
National Research Council, Committee on Operations
Research, "Operations Research with Special Reference to Non-Military
Applications,"
1951
1.3/64
Deming, W. Edwards, "What happened in Japan?,"
Industrial Quality Control 24, pp. 89-93,
1967
1.3/64
Wallis, W. Allen, "The Statistical Research Group,
1942-1945," Journal of the American Statistical
Association 75, pp. 320-335,
1981
1.3/64
Added to the collection by Leonard E. Gillman, April
1981:
1.3/64
Tufts College Mathematical Research Project, L.
Carmichael et al., "Mathematical Analysis of Ordinary and Deviated Pursuit
Curves," 252 pages, photocopy,
1944
1.3/64
Gillman, Leonard, and Goode, Harry H., "The Limited
Ammunition Problem," eight page photocopy of typescript,
1945
1.3/64
Goode, Harry H., "Summary of German Results on Pursuit
Curves," 30 pages, NAVEXOS-P-425,
1946
1.3/64
"The Tufts College Mathematical Research Project,
NAVEXOS P-528," 59 pages, mimeographed,
April 30, 1948
1.3/64
[Gillman, Leonard?], [On pursuit curves], 24 page
photocopy, "Columbia University Master's Essay" marked in left margin,
undated
1.3/84
Administrative files [collected by Albert C. Lewis]:
1.3/84
Research proposal:
1.3/84
The Influence of World War II on the Development of
the Mathematical Sciences,
1981
1.3/84
Responses to statistical archives questionnaire,
response register,
1981
1.3/84
Transcript:
1.3/84
Casual excerpts from planning committee meeting,
November 12-14, 1980
1.3/84
Correspondence
1.3/84
Charles W. MacArthur, planning committee,
1980-1981
1.3/84
J. Barkley Rosser, J.L. Heilbron,
1981
1.3/84
“The Mathematization of U.S. Society,” draft and
comments, Lewis, Rosser,
1981
1.3/84
Archives checklist, survey register, proposal
comments, Lewis, Rosser,
1981
1.3/84
Eisenhart, Rees, Koppelman,
1978
1.3/84
Eisenhart, Price, Rosser, Rees,
1979
1.3/84
Price, Bernstein, Rees, Eisenhart, Brichford, Solomon,
1980
1.3/84
Eisenhart, Rosser, Bromberg, Krushkal,
1981
1.3/84
Rosser, Beckenbach, Rees, Eisenhart,
1981-1983
1.3/84
Miscellaneous,
1976-1983
1.3/84
Article:
1.3/84
Gina Bari-Kolata, ”Trial and Error Game that Puzzles
Fast Computers,”
Smithsonian,
October 1979
1.3/84
Report:
1.3/84
“The Mathematization of U.S. Society,” Survey
register, comments from Rosser, appendix,
1980
1.3/84
Minutes, budget,
1980-1981
1.8/Box 3
Committee member list,
1978, 1979, 1980
1.8/Box 3
Research Proposal:
1.8/Box 3
“Applied Mathematics in World War II,” to National
Science Foundation,
1983
1.8/Box 3
Transcripts, reports, articles, correspondence,
1945-1983
4RM14c
Audiotapes:
4RM14c
“World War II Committee, 80-11, Part I,”
1980
4RM14c
“World War II Committee, 80-11-13, Part II,”
1980
4RM14c
“World War II Committee, March, ’81,”
1981
4RM112
Photographs:
4RM112
Carins, Stewart S.,
April 1972
4RM112
Leighton, Walter,
1959
4RM112
Mood, A. M.,
1964
4RM112
Wolfowitz, Jacob,
1975