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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note:

Scope and Contents:

Series Outline

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Description of Series

General correspondence

Research and writing

Faculty and administrative activities

Mathematics faculty at Texas and doctoral descendents

Teaching materials

Educational and professional organizations

Personal

Writings and lectures by others

Notes on Harvard University courses

University of Texas, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

A Guide to the H. J. Ettlinger Papers, 1909-1981



Descriptive Summary

Creator: Ettlinger, H. J. (Hyman Joseph), 1889-
Title: H. J. Ettlinger Papers,
Dates: 1909-1981
Abstract: Collection documents the career of Hyman Joseph Ettlinger (1889-1986) from his doctoral studies at Harvard University (1910-1913) through his career at the University of Texas at Austin. Material includes correspondence, student notes, teaching notes, mimeographed lecture notes, drafts of publications, technical reports, clippings, reprints, and photographs.
Extent: 3 ft. 6 in.; manuscript, typescript, printed, photographic.
Language: Materials are written in English.
Repository: Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note:

Hyman Joseph Ettlinger was born September 1, l889, in St. Louis, Missouri, and was educated at Washington University (Bachelor's degree, 1910) and Harvard University (Master's, 1911; Ph.D., 1920). He joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1913, and retired in 1968. He was especially noted for his teaching. Ettlinger's research was in differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was associated with the UT Defense Research Laboratory, where he worked on aerodynamics. He was chairman of the Department of Pure Mathematics for approximately 25 years. He died in Austin on June 8, 1986.

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Scope and Contents:

Records of Ettlinger's teaching (1925-1966; 8 in.) include teaching notes and mimeographed text materials for several courses. Notes of courses Ettlinger attended while a graduate student at Harvard University are present (1910-1913; 7 in.) and include notes of courses by G.D. Birkhoff, M. Bocher, C.L. Bouton, W.E. Byerly, J.L. Coolidge, H.N. Davis, D. Jackson, W.F. Osgood, and B.O. Peirce. There are mimeographed notes of lectures on Heaviside's operational calculus given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1925; 2 in.). Ettlinger's research is represented by notes and technical reports prepared in association with the UT Defense Research Laboratory (now the Applied Research Laboratories) (1947-52; 4 in.). Also included is a computer printout (1977; 84 pp.) and associated letters and notes on the doctoral descendents of UT mathematics faculty (prepared in collaboration with Albert C. Lewis). There is a small amount of general correspondence (1912-81; 2 in.).

Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics.

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Series Outline

General correspondence
Research and writing
Faculty and administrative activities
Mathematics faculty at Texas and doctoral descendents
Teaching materials
Educational and professional organizations
Personal
Writings and lectures by others
Notes on Harvard University courses

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access.

Use Restrictions

These papers are stored remotely. Contact reference staff for retrieval from offsite storage.

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Index Terms

Persons:
Birkhoff, George David, 1884-1944
Bocher, Maxime, 1867-1918
Bouton, Charles Leonard, 1869-
Coolidge, Julian Lowell, 1873-1954
Davis, Harvey N. (Harvey Nathaniel), b. 1881
Ettlinger, H. J. (Hyman Joseph), 1889-
Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925
Lewis, Albert C.
Osgood, William F. (William Fogg), 1864-1943
Organizations:
Harvard University. Dept. of Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin. Applied Research Laboratories
University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of Mathematics
Subjects:
Aerodynamics
Calculus of variations
Mathematical analysis
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

H. J. Ettlinger Papers, 1909-1981, Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

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Detailed Description of the Papers

 

General correspondence

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3.3/1 B - L
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3.3/1 M - W, unidentified
box
3.3/8 Albert Lewis, 1975-1986

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Research and writing

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3.3/1 Reprints
Popular and educational lectures (manuscript and typescript)
Typescripts on college mathematics
Typescript on Steiner's surface
box
4RM55c Oversized proofs of "Existence Theorems for Implicit Functions of Real Variables," 1926
Box
3.3/2 Defense Research Laboratory
Technical reports
1947-49
1950-52
Research notes and notes on work of others

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Faculty and administrative activities

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3.3/3 Retirement, 1968
Graduate students - dissertations and records, 1935-54
Proposed dismissal of Professor R. L. Moore, 1969.
UT Mathematics Department
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2M400 Documents relating to students in the summer program for talented high school students in mathematics, October and November, 1964

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Mathematics faculty at Texas and doctoral descendents

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3.3/3 Printout, notes, memoranda, correspondence, April-May 1977
Descendents of R.H. Bing, H.J. Ettlinger, R.L. Moore: Notes and correspondence
Other UT faculty and descendents: Notes and correspondence

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Teaching materials

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3.3/4 Advanced calculus
Aeronautics, Analytic geometry, Elasticity, and unidentified
Applied Mathematics 15
Descriptive geometry
Differential equations and applications
Examinations
Numbers: An Experimental Course in Freshman Mathematics
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3.3/5 Potential theory
Pure Mathematics: 34, 17, 107, 696, and unidentified
Pure Mathematics 150 and 151 (Boundary value problems)
Vector analysis, Integration, Lebesque integrals, Calculus of variations, Definite integrals

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Educational and professional organizations

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3.3/5 National Research Council, 1954-55
National Science Foundation, Student Science Training Program, 1968-69
Other organizations

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Personal

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3.3/6 Curriculum vita, biographical data, newspaper clippings
Documents, personal records, photographs
Education:
Washington University, examination, 1909
Harvard University, documents and printed examinations
Religious activities; Athletics

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Writings and lectures by others

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3.3/6 Biographical items on mathematicians and others
Birkhoff, G.D. "Nota sobre la Relitividad a dos dimensiones y la Geometria euclidea del Plano" (typescript)
Reprints of papers by Ettlinger's former students
Heaviside's operational calculus, reprints and lecture notes, 1925
Notes: M. Bocher's Regular points of differential equations of the second order
Papers on boundary value problems
box
2M400 Directions for using a five-meter slide rule, undated
"Mathematics News Letter," 1929
National Academy of Sciences—Division of Mathematics
Annual reports, 1959-1971
Fellowship and Research Opportunities in Mathematics, 1964-1966
box
4RM55c Oversized newspaper clipping, "Old Archimedes Teases the Moderns," 1926

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Notes on Harvard University courses

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3.3/7 G.D. Birkhoff: Analytical theory of heat and elastic vibrations (K. Garebedian), 1919
Ordinary differential equations of second order
Calculus of variations
M. Bocher: Ordinary linear differential equations
C.L. Bouton: Differential equations
W.E. Byerly: Dynamics of rigid and elastic bodies
W.E. Byerly and B.O. Peirce: Trigonometric series
J.L. Coolidge: Introduction to modern geometry and algebra
Box
3.3/8 H.N. Davis: Elements of mechanics; Engineering 5a
D. Jackson, Algebra of polynomials
W.F. Osgood: Infinite series
Second course on theory of functions
Differential and integral calculus
Lectures on logarithmic potential
Unidentified
Extent (1 sheet)
Roever, W.H.: Course in descriptive geometry

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