Descriptive Summary
Moore, R. L. (Robert Lee),
1882-
R. L. Moore
Papers,
1875, 1891-1975 Materials are written in English.
84-63, 86-20, 86-41, 87-3
27 ft., plus books and
journals
Archives of American Mathematics, Center for
American History,The University of Texas at
Austin
R. L. Moore
(1882-1974), a prominent mathematician, was a professor of mathematics at The
University of Texas at Austin for almost fifty years. The R. L. Moore Papers,
1875-1975, consist of correspondence, research notebooks, drafts, teaching
material, mathematical notes, printed material, photographs and other material
documenting the life and career of Moore.
Biographical Note
Robert Lee Moore (1882-1974), a prominent mathematician, was a
professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin for almost fifty
years. He is well known for his work in point-set topology, but is most
remembered for his work as an educator. During his long career, Moore
supervised over fifty doctoral students, including three members of the
National Academy of Sciences, three presidents of the American Mathematical
Society and four presidents of the Mathematical Association of America.
Moore was born November 14, 1882, in Dallas, Texas, the fifth child of
Charles Jonathan and Louisa Ann Moore. He developed an interest in mathematics
early in life, teaching himself out of a calculus textbook before entering The
University of Texas in 1898 at the age of sixteen. There he studied under
George Bruce Halsted, simultaneously earning a B.S. and M.A. in 1901. After
graduating, Moore spent a year as a Fellow in mathematics at UT and taught an
analytic geometry course. During his fellowship, Moore discovered a redundancy
in Hilbert's formulation of a set of axioms for geometry; this redundancy,
unbeknownst to Moore, had already been published earlier that year by E. H.
Moore (no relation) of the University of Chicago. Nonetheless, R. L. Moore's
version of the redundancy was "elegant" and an important early achievement in
his career.
After teaching high school mathematics in Marshall, Texas, for a year
(1902-1903), Moore was accepted in the mathematics program at the University of
Chicago. He completed his doctorate in two years under the direction of E. H.
Moore and Oswald Veblen, graduating in 1905 with a thesis entitled "Sets of
Metrical Hypotheses for Geometry." From 1905 until returning to the University
of Texas in 1920, Moore held teaching posts at several universities: University
of Tennessee at Knoxville (1905-1906), Princeton University (1906-1908),
Northwestern University (1908-1911) and the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia (1911-1920). In Pennsylvania, Moore supervised three Ph.D.
students: John R. Kline, George H. Hallett, and Anna M. Mullikin.
In 1920, Milton Brockett Porter, head of the pure mathematics
department at The University of Texas, recruited Moore away from the University
of Pennsylvania. Moore joined E. L. Dodd and H. J. Ettlinger on the faculty,
which was soon augmented by H. S. Vandiver. He served on the faculty until he
was forced to retire in 1969 at the age of 86. Moore had a major influence on
the culture of pure mathematics at UT, both in his personality and his teaching
style.
Moore regularly taught undergraduate calculus and pre-calculus courses
in addition to his more advanced classes. In his advanced classes, Moore's way
of teaching, known as the "Moore Method" or the "Texas Method" began with the
careful selection of students who did not have an extensive knowledge about the
topic to be discussed. He would then give the students some basic axioms and
definitions and ask them to construct proofs and examples for different
theorems. The students were not allowed to read any texts, discuss the problems
among themselves, or seek help from other professors in the department. Instead
of lectures, the classroom experience consisted of a student explaining his or
her proof at the board while other students asked questions. If the student got
stuck, or if a flaw was found in his or her proof, another student would take
his or her place at the board.
R. L. Moore's honors included: University Research Lecturer (1929);
National Academy of Sciences, member (1931); American Mathematical Society
(AMS), visiting lecturer (1931-1932), and president (1937-1938); American
Association for the Advancement of Science, vice president of mathematics
section (1947); and the title of Distinguished Professor at UT. He also served
as editor for both the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and
the colloquium publications of the AMS.
Moore married Margaret MacLellan Key in 1910, and their marriage lasted
64 years, ending with his death. They had no children. Moore had many hobbies,
including target shooting, automobiles, boxing, and genealogy. He also had a
great interest in his health and even went so far as to prescribe his own
glasses for many years.
After his retirement, Moore was honored with the dedication, in 1972,
of Robert Lee Moore Hall, home of the physics, mathematics and astronomy
departments on the corner of Dean Keeton and Speedway on the UT campus. Moore
suffered a stroke in May of 1974, and a second stroke in June. He passed away
October 4, 1974.
Sources [available in "Moore, Robert Lee" vertical file]:
- Greenwood, Robert E., R. H. Bing, W. T. Guy, Jr., R. C. Osborn, "In
Memoriam, Robert Lee Moore," 1975
- Jones, F. Burton. "The Moore Method,"
American Mathematical Monthly 84:
273-277 (Apr. 1977)
Scope and Contents
The R. L. Moore Papers, 1875, 1891-1975, consist of correspondence,
research notebooks, drafts, teaching material, mathematical notes, printed
material, photographs and other material documenting the life and career of
Robert Lee Moore (1882-1974). The papers are divided into three series: (1)
professional, (2) personal, and (3) books, dissertations, journals and
offprints.
The majority of the collection pertains to Moore's professional career,
including sections on correspondence, mathematical works, teaching,
professional organizations and honorary societies, and general material.
Moore's professional correspondence provides a rich look into his work and the
work of his contemporaries. Correspondents include: R. C. Archibald, S.
Armentrout, J. and L. Barrett, E. F. Beckenbach, E. T. Bell, R. H. Bing, G. D.
and G. Birkhoff, G. A. Bliss, M. Bocher, E. W. Chittenden, L. E. Dickson, E.
Dyer, M. Frechet, G. B. Halsted, J. R. Kline, C. Kuratowski, S. Lefschetz, E.
H. Moore, R. G. D. Richardson, M. E. Rudin, W. Sierpinski, J. M. Slye, M.
Stone, O. Veblen, G. T. Whyburn, and R. L. Wilder. The section on mathematical
works includes published and unpublished works by Moore and others. It also
contains an extensive collection of Moore's notes and drafts. Insight into
Moore as a teacher can be gained from the "Teaching" sub-series. Administrative
correspondence and departmental business, as well as class records and notes
and correspondence about the 1967 film about Moore's teaching style, Challenge
in the Classroom, are included. Other sections of Moore's professional life,
including his presidency of the American Mathematical Society, and his
relationship with Professor George Bruce Halsted are also represented in this
series.
The personal series documents Moore's family life, hobbies, health, and
finances, and includes sub-series on: correspondence, family, education,
health, finances, genealogy, automobiles and motoring, rezoning, notes, printed
material, and photographs. Moore corresponded with many of his family members,
but the deepest correspondence was with his brother, Jennings Moore. In
general, only the letters received by Moore are present, although in some
cases, drafts or copies of Moore's letters are included in the collection.
The final series includes books, offprints and journals from Moore's
personal library, as well as a set of dissertations from some of Moore and H.
S. Wall's graduate students. Books are being catalogued in UTCAT and can soon
be requested by call number in the reading room. Offprints and dissertations
are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name. Journals are not yet
processed.
Several appendices relating to this inventory are available online as
PDF files. They include:
a cross-reference list to Moore's
notebooks,
publications by Moore,
Moore's graduate students and their graduation
dates, and the books available from the Moore library [not yet
available online, please contact archivist for more information].
Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics
Organization
These papers are organized as follows:
- Series 1: Professional
- A: Correspondence
- B: Mathematical works
- C: Teaching
- D: Professional organizations and honorary societies
- E: General
- Series 2: Personal
- A: Correspondence
- B: Family
- C: Education
- D: Health
- E: Finances
- F: Genealogy
- G: Automobiles and motoring
- H: Rezoning in the neighborhood of the Moore home
- I: Notes
- J: Printed material
- K: Photographs
- Series 3: Books, dissertations, journals, and offprints
- Series 4: Artifacts
Related Material
Many of Moore's students and colleagues also have collections with the
Archives of American Mathematics. In addition, please consult the R. L. Moore
Legacy Collection, a collection of oral histories, class notes and
reminiscences of Moore's students and colleagues, for other material relating
to R. L. Moore.
Access Restrictions
Access to student records is restricted until 80 years after the date of
creation. All other material is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Portions of these papers are stored remotely. Contact reference staff
for retrieval from offsite storage.
Preferred Citation
R. L. Moore Papers, 1875, 1891-1975, Archives of American Mathematics,
Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Please note that consecutive box and folder numbers are written on the
folders in pencil. If you prefer to cite an exact box/folder number, you may
use these instead of the physical box number. A table converting consecutive
box numbers to physical box numbers is available upon request.
Index Terms
Persons
Archibald, Raymond Clare,
1875-1957
Armentrout, Steve
Barrett, John H., 1922-
Barrett, Lida K.
Beckenbach, Edwin F.
Bell, Eric Temple, 1883-1960
Bing, R. H.
Birkhoff, Garrett, 1911-
Birkhoff, George David,
1884-1944
Bliss, Gilbert Ames, 1876-1951
Bocher, Maxime, 1867-1918
Chittenden, Edward Wilson
Dickson, Leonard E. (Leonard Eugene),
1874-
Dyer, Eldon, 1929
Frechet, Maurice, 1878-
Halsted, George Bruce,
1853-1922
Kline, John Robert, 1891-
Kuratowski, Kazimierz, 1896-
Lefschetz, Solomon, 1884-1972
Moore, Eliakim Hastings,
1862-1932
Moore, R. L. (Robert Lee),
1882-
Richardson, R. G. D. (Roland George
Dwight), 1878-1949
Rudin, Mary Ellen, 1924-
Sierpinski, Wactaw, 1882-1969
Slye, John Marshall
Stone, Marshall H. (Marshall Harvey),
1903-
Veblen, Oswald, 1880-1960
Whyburn, Gordon Thomas, 1904-
Wilder, Raymond Louis, 1896-
Organizations
American Mathematical Society
University of Texas at Austin. Dept. of
Mathematics
Subjects
Mathematics--Study and teaching
Topology
Collection History
In the summer of 1974, at Mrs. R. L. Moore's request, Professor R. E.
Greenwood of the Department of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin
began moving papers and books from the Moore home at 904 West 23rd in Austin to
Professor Moore's offices in the R. L. Moore Hall on the UT campus. In the
spring of 1975, after Professor Greenwood completed the basic organization of
the papers, most of the collection was moved to the Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center. There further processing was conducted by Dr. Albert C. Lewis,
curator of the History of Science collections. The sorting and analysis of
Moore's notebooks was completed by M. H. Proffitt of the University of Texas at
Austin in 1975. In 1984 the R. L. Moore Papers, along with the rest of the
Archives of American Mathematics, was moved to the Center for American History
where Frederic Burchsted continued to care for the material. Reprocessing of
the R. L. Moore Papers by Kristy Sorensen began in March of 2003. The current
finding aid reflects the efforts of all these individuals.
Processing Information
Box/folder numbers written on individual folders list the consecutive
box number instead of the shelf number. A table converting consecutive box
numbers to shelf numbers is available upon request.
Detailed Description of the Papers
I. Professional:
4RM72
A. Correspondence:
Sub-series abstract:
This section is organized into two sections: (1) By correspondent,
and (2) General. The "By correspondent" section is arranged alphabetically by
last name of the correspondent, and chronologically within the file. The
folders include letters to, by, and about the correspondent, with
cross-references indicated on yellow slips filed with the letters. The
"General" section contains letters filed chronologically, as well as
correspondence filed by subject. Cross-referencing was completed by Dr. Albert
Lewis at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The original arrangement
was developed by Dr. R. E. Greenwood. Dr. Greenwood's notes are included here
in brackets after the name of the correspondent. Graduation dates for Ph.D.
students were added to some notes for consistency.
4RM72
By correspondent:
4RM72
Adams, Robert MacColl,
1940-1944, 1961
4RM26
Photograph of Adams, 2.25" X 3.25", black and white,
undated
4RM72
Anderson, Richard Davis, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1948
graduate],
1942-1968
4RM72
Archibald, Raymond Clare,
February 1937-April 1938
4RM72
Armentrout, Steve, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1956
graduate],
1955-1957, 1971
4RM72
Ayres, William Leake, [graduate student at UT Austin,
transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and took his doctorate with J. R.
Kline in 1927],
1925-1973? and undated
4RM72
Babb, Maurice Jefferis,
1921-1934 and undated
4RM72
Baker, Blanche Jo Anne (nee Monger), [Ph.D. student of
RLM, 1965 graduate, married to Harvey Baker, Jr.],
1958-1967 and undated
4RM72
Baker Jr., Harvey Lee, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1965
graduate, married to Blanche Jo Anne Baker],
1965-1967 and undated
4RM72
Ball, Billy Joe, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1952
graduate],
1946-1964 and undated
4RM72
Barrett, John Herbert and Lida (nee Kittrell), [John
was a Ph.D. student of Ettlinger, graduated 1951, Lida was a Ph.D. student with
RLM. After John graduated, they moved to Delaware and Lida completed her degree
under J. R. Kline at U. Penn in 1954],
1949-1961, 1975
4RM72
Basye, Robert Eugene, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1933
graduate],
1931-1940
4RM72
Beckenbach, Edwin Ford,
1942, 1967 and undated
4RM72
Bell, Eric Temple,
1927-1931
See also: AMS files, especially the
Colloquium Publication Committee
4RM72
Bennett, Albert Arnold,
1920-1926, 1947
4RM72
Bentley, Arthur F[isher?],
1930-1932
4RM72
Biesele, Ferdinand C., [Ph.D. student of Vandiver,
1941 graduate],
January 28, 1949
4RM72
Bing, R. H.:
4RM72
Letters about Bing,
1944-1968 and undated
4RM72
Letters to and from Bing,
1942-1969
4RM73
Birkhoff, George David and Garrett, [Note: George
David is the father, Garrett is the son],
1932-1947
4RM73
Bledsoe, Woodrow Wilson, [chair of the UT mathematics
department, 1968-1970],
March 7, 1969
4RM73
Bliss, Gilbert Ames,
1926-1940
4RM73
Bôcher, Maxime,
September 15, 1911
4RM73
Brown, Jack, [Ph.D. student of Wall, 1967 graduate],
April-May 1967
4RM73
Bruck, Richard Hubert,
1945
4RM26
Photograph of Bruck removed from letter of July 20,
1945, 2" X 2", black and white,
ca. 1945
4RM73
Burgess, Cecil Edmund, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1951
graduate],
1947-1965
4RM73
Carmichael, Robert Daniel,
1927-1932
4RM73
Cattell, Jacques McKeen, [primarily regarding
'starring' procedures in
American Men of Science],
1922-1949 and undated
4RM73
Chittenden, Edward Wilson, [Ph.D. student of E. H.
Moore, University of Chicago, 1912 graduate],
1916-1929, 1943-1947
4RM73
Coleman, Walter B., [Ph.D. student at UT, switched to
music and then back to mathematics],
1938
4RM73
Connell, Edwin Hale, [one-time student of RLM,
received Ph.D. from Stanford (1959), taught at University of Miami],
1956-1958 and undated
4RM73
Cook, David Edwin, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1967
graduate],
May 20, 1967
4RM73
Cook, Howard, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1962 graduate],
1963-1972 and undated
4RM73
Cornette, James Lawson,
1958-1973 and undated
4RM73
Curtiss, David Raymond,
1911-1917, 1930
4RM73
Davis Jr., Roy Dale, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1966
graduate],
December 1965
4RM73
Dickson, Leonard Eugene,
1913-1916, 1947 and undated
4RM73
Dickson, Robert B.,
1941
4RM73
Dinkines, Flora,
1938-1941
4RM73
Dodd, Edward Lewis,
August 6, 1940
4RM73
Dorroh, Joe Lee, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1930
graduate],
1929-1935
4RM73
Drobnies, Saul Isaac, [Ph.D. student of Wall, 1961
graduate],
1956-1958
4RM73
Dyer, S. Eldon (Sherman), [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1952
graduate],
1952-1958 and undated
4RM73
Estill, Mary E. -- See Rudin, Mary Ellen (nee
Estill)
4RM73
Ettlinger, Hyman Joseph,
1922, 1951-1954, 1966-1973 and
undated
4RM73
Ettlinger, Martin G., [M.A. student of RLM],
1943-1944 and undated
4RM73
Evans, Griffith Conrad,
1928-1935
4RM73
Fitzpatrick Jr., Ben, [Ph.D. student of Ettlinger,
1958 graduate],
1962-1973
4RM73
Fleming, Richard T., [University Writings Collection],
1965-1971
4RM73
Ford, Lester Randolph,
1937-1945
4RM73
Fréchet, Maurice René,
May 2, 1926 and undated
4RM73
Gehman, Harry Merrill, [National Research Council
fellow at UT in the late 20s],
1925-1932 and undated
4RM73
Gillman, Leonard,
1964-1973
4RM73
Godrey, Edwin L., [student at UT for one year],
September 14, 1937
4RM73
Green, John William, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1968
graduate],
1968-1972
4RM73
Greenwood Jr., Robert Ewing,
1934-1966
4RM73
Griffin, F. L., [long time mathematical friend of
RLM],
1907, 1937-1952
4RM73
Hall, Dick Wick,
May 1938
4RM73
Hallett Jr., George Hervey, [Ph.D. student of RLM at
U. Penn, 1918 graduate],
1918, 1972-1974
4RM26
Photograph, Hallett family, 4"X6", black and white,
ca. 1920
4RM73
Halmos, Paul Richard, [became interested in RLM and
his methodology ca. 1960],
1962-1970 and undated
4RM73
Halsted, George Bruce,
1898-1905
4RM74
Halsted, George Bruce,
1905-1920, 1951 and undated
4RM74
Hamilton, Olan Harvery, [Ph.D. student of Ettlinger,
1937 graduate],
1932-1942, 1960 and undated
4RM74
Hammer, Preston C.,
1965-1972
See also: R. L. MOORE LEGACY
COLLECTION, Personal files -- Mary Ellen Rudin -- 2/13/02 donation
4RM74
Hamstrom, Mary Elizabeth, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1952
graduate],
1948-1961 and undated
4RM74
Harrison, Thomas P., [UT English Department faculty],
1963-1970 and undated
4RM74
Hedrick, Earle Raymond,
1908-1933 and undated
4RM74
Helson, Ravenna Mathews,
1957-1958
4RM74
Helton, Jon Craig, [Ph.D. student of Wall, 1970
graduate],
1970-1971
4RM74
Henderson, George Walter, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1959
graduate],
1956-1961, 1971 and undated
4RM74
Hildebrand, Joel H.,
1933-1938
4RM74
Hildebrandt, Theophil Henry,
1918, 1929
4RM74
Hinrichsen, John Walter, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1967
graduate],
1967
4RM74
Hoel, Paul G., [statistician],
April-May 1946
4RM74
Houston, Raymond,
1965-1970
4RM74
Huff, Gerald B., [spent a year as a visitor at UT in
the late 40s],
1942-1949
4RM74
Jackson, Dunham,
1926-1927
4RM74
Jackson, Robert Everett, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1969
graduate],
May-June 1967
4RM74
Jolly, Robert Franklin, [Ph.D. student of Wall, 1963
graduate],
1962-1971 and undated
4RM74
Jones, F. Burton (Floyd), [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1935
graduate],
1941-1971 and undated
4RM74
Kitterell, Lida -- See Barrett, John Herbert and Lida
(nee Kittrell)
4RM74
Kline, Robert John, [Ph.D. student of RLM at U. Penn,
1916 graduate]:
4RM74
Letters about Kline,
1916-1920, 1955-1958
4RM74
Letters to or by Kline,
October 1918-February 1954
4RM75
Letters to or by Kline,
undated
4RM75
Incomplete letters by Kline, [first page or more
missing from letter],
undated
4RM75
Klipple, Edmund Chester, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1932
graduate],
May 20, 1956
4RM99
Knaster, Bronislaw,
June 24, 1930
4RM75
Kubota, T.,
1920-1931
4RM75
Kuratowski, Kazimierz,
1930
4RM75
Lane, Ralph E., [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1950 graduate],
1947, 1957-1959
4RM75
Lefschetz, Solomon,
1924-1940
4RM75
Lennes, Nels Johann,
1905-1912
4RM75
Lubben, Renke Gustav, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1925
graduate],
1925-1939, 1968
4RM75
Lucas Jr., Harry,
1972-1974 and undated
4RM75
McClendon, Jimmy,
1943-1944
4RM75
Mahavier, William Stockton, [Ph.D. student of RLM,
1957 graduate],
1952-1956, 1969
4RM75
Martin, Pat,
December 1, 1969
4RM75
Mauldin, Dan, [Ph.D. student of Wall, 1969 graduate],
1968-1972
4RM75
Menger, Karl,
1930-1940
4RM26
Photo of Karl Menger and Dr. Nikolaus Hofreiter,
2.75" X 4", black and white,
undated
4RM75
Miller, Harlan Cross, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1941
graduate],
1935-1942 and undated
4RM75
Mohat, John Theodore, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1955
graduate],
1954, 1965
4RM75
Moise, Edwin Evariste, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1947
graduate],
1940-1952
4RM75
Moody Jr., Edward F.,
September-October 1951
4RM75
Moore, E. H. (Eliakim Hastings),
1902-1930, 1958
4RM75
Moran, Charles,
September 1938
4RM75
Moreman, Douglas,
March 16, 1966
4RM75
Mullikin, Anna Margaret, [Ph.D. student of RLM at U.
Penn, 1922 graduate],
1920-1921
4RM75
Murray, Christopher Brock, [Ph.D. student of Wall,
1964 graduate],
March-April 1966
4RM75
Oakley, Cletus Odia, [UT student in the 1920s],
1940-1941, 1971
4RM75
O'Conner, Joel Leslie, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1967
graduate],
1965-1968
4RM75
Payne, Fernandus, [standards for selecting a chairman
of the mathematics department with reference to F. Burton Jones and other
correspondence],
February-June 1941
4RM75
Pearson, Bennie Jake, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1955
graduate],
April 23, 1957
4RM75
Porcelli, Pasquale, [Ph.D. student of Wall, 1952
graduate],
1946-1967
4RM75
Porter, Milton Brockett,
1920-1939 and undated
4RM26
Photo removed from letter dated September 7, 1937 of
Lida B. May, 2.5" X 3.5", black and white,
ca. 1937
4RM75
Proffitt, Michael Herry, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1968
graduate],
1968-1969
4RM75
Purifoy, Jesse Allen, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1969
graduate],
1968-1969
4RM75
Rae, Raymond W.,
1938
4RM75
Reed, Coke Stevenson, [Ph.D. student of Wall, 1966
graduate],
1966-1968
4RM75
Reid, William Thomas, [Ph.D. student of Ettlinger,
1929 graduate],
1934-1935, 1945 and undated
4RM75
Richardson, Roland George Dwight,
1922-1947 and undated
4RM75
Roberts, John Henderson, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1929
graduate],
1928-1971 and undated
4RM75
Rogers Jr., Jack Wyndall, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1966
graduate],
1966-1970
4RM76
Rudin, Mary Ellen (Estill), [Ph.D. student of RLM,
1949 graduate],
1948-1959 and undated
4RM26
Photos removed from May 19, 1956 letter, three
photos of M. E. Rudin with two of her children [?], 3.25" X 4.5", black and
white,
ca. 1956
4RM76
Rutt, Norman Eby, [National Research Council
post-doctoral fellow at UT, 1929-1930[?]),
1928-1941
4RM76
Secker, Martin Dayss, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1966
graduate],
1966-1971
4RM76
Shaw, W. F., [family friend, mathematics enthusiast],
1903, 1932-1943 and undated
4RM76
Sierpinski, Waclaw,
1925-1926
4RM76
Silver, Daniel N.,
August 1946
4RM55b
Oversized transcript, Columbia University,
August 26, 1947
4RM76
Slye, John Marshall, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1953
graduate],
1950-1968 and undated
4RM76
Sorgenfrey, Robert Henry, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1941
graduate],
1941-1946
4RM76
Spalding, Keith, [offer of honorary degree to RLM],
March 1966
4RM76
Stevenson, Nell Elizabeth, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1969
graduate],
1969-1973
4RM76
Stiles, F. A., [UT mathematics education student],
1970-1971 and undated
4RM26
Photograph of Stiles, removed from holiday card,
3.5"X3.5", color,
undated
4RM76
Stone, Marshall Harvey, [mathematical friend],
1944-1956, 1973 and undated
4RM76
Swain, Robert Lomand, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1941
graduate],
1942-1959 and undated
4RM76
Swingle, Paul McCartney,
1929-1931, 1949-1953
4RM76
Thomas, Joseph Miller, [professor at Duke University,
brother-in-law of UT president T. S. Painter],
1934-1948, 1973 and undated
4RM76
Traylor, Donald Reginald, [Ph.D. student of
Fitzpatrick at Auburn, 1962 graduate],
1966-1972 and undated
4RM76
Treybig, L. Bruce (Leon), [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1958
graduate],
1957-1959
4RM76
Vandiver, Harry Schultz,
1929-1947 and undated
4RM76
Van Doren, Kenneth Ray, [student at UT],
1966-1968 and undated
4RM76
Veblen, Oswald, [associate in mathematics at Chicago,
1903-1905, advisor for RLM's dissertation, on Princeton faculty with RLM,
1906-1908, many other associations],
1907-1935, 1963 and undated
4RM76
Vickery, Charles Watson, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1932
graduate],
1931-1960, 1971
4RM26
Photographs:
4RM26
Photo mounted on card reading: "The Mathematics
Club will meet Tuesday, Mar. 5, 1935, 7:30 P.M., Waggener Hall 10. Speaker: Dr.
Klipple, Subject: (arrow pointing to photo of Vickery?)," [1.75"X2.5", black
and white],
1935
4RM26
Photo of Vickery, [2.5" X 3.5", black and white],
1957
4RM76
Wall, Hubert Stanley,
1944-1969 and undated
4RM76
Whyburn, Gordon Thomas, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1927
graduate],
1927-1968 and undated
4RM76
Whyburn, Lucille, [M.A. student of RLM ca. 1936],
1930-1971 and undated
4RM76
Whyburn, William Marvin, [Ph.D. student of Ettlinger,
1927 graduate],
1937-1949, 1959, 1969
4RM77
Wilder, Raymond Louis, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1923
graduate], includes letters donated by Wilder in 1975 with his notes attached
on index cards,
1923-1948, 1963-1974 and undated
4RM26
Photographs:
4RM26
Ray and Una Wilder, 3.5"X3.5", color,
1974
4RM26
Photographic holiday card, photo of Wilder's home,
letter on back of card from Una Wilder, 3.5"X7", color,
December 1967
4RM77
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell,
1914-1933, 1946
4RM77
Worrell Jr., John Mays, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1961
graduate],
1958-1968
4RM77
Young Jr., Gail Sellers, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1942
graduate],
1938-1947
4RM77
Younglove, James Newton, [Ph.D. student of RLM, 1958
graduate],
1957-1958
4RM77
Yust, Walter, [editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica],
November-December 1939 and undated
4RM77
Zippin, Leo, [National Research Council fellow at UT
in the early 1930s],
1931-1939 and undated
4RM77
Group letters,
1929-1936, 1955, 1972 and undated
4RM77
General:
4RM77
1908-1960 and undated
4RM26
Photographs:
4RM26
Jean Botts, removed from March 5, 1942 letter,
2.5" X 2.5", black and white,
1941
4RM26
Gladdis E. Richards, Ann Arbor, Michigan, [no
accompanying letter], 2.25" X 3.25", black and white,
1942
4RM26
Leon Benson, removed from March 26, 1946 letter,
3.5" X 5", black and white,
ca. 1946
4RM26
Selmer M. Johnson, University of Illinois, removed
from March 29, 1950 letter, 3" X 4", black and white,
ca. 1950
4RM78
1961-1974
4RM78
Envelopes,
1943-1945, 1970-1973 and undated
4RM78
Letters grouped by Moore:
4RM78
Pure vs. applied mathematics, letters and clippings,
1903, 1936, 1949-1953
4RM78
Roberts and Zippin and Whyburn affair,
February-June 1932
4RM78
Science mobilization bill, U. S. Senate,
1943
4RM99
Letters received after Moore's death,
1975
4RM56
B. Mathematical works:
Sub-series Abstract
This sub-series is divided into six parts: (1) Published papers,
(2) Unpublished papers, (3) Foundations of Point Set Theory, (4) Bibliographies
(5) Notes, and (6) Manuscripts by others. Published papers are divided into
working files and offprints, and are filed under their publication number,
listed in the bibliography in
appendix two. Working files include
correspondence, drafts, notes, and revisions related to the publication. Some
of the offprints are annotated. All other sections are arranged
chronologically, with the exception of "Manuscripts by others" which is first
arranged alphabetically by the author's last name (if known). This section
includes papers to be refereed, student papers, dissertation drafts, preprints,
and letters and notes about these papers. Note that additional copies of
Foundations of Point Set Theory can be found in the R. L. Moore Library (see
appendix 4, available upon request) and the R. L. Moore Legacy Collection.
Consult
appendix one for more information on
the notebooks in this section and possible cross-references.
4RM56
Published:
4RM56
Working files:
4RM56
Publication number 2,
ca. 1908
4RM56
Publication number 3, notes removed from
offprint,
ca. 1912
4RM56
Publication number 4,
April 14, 1911 and undated
4RM56
Publication number 10,
ca. 1930
4RM99
Publication number 13,
ca. 1919
4RM56
Publication number 15,
ca. 1919
4RM56
Publication number 16, notes removed from offprint,
ca. 1919
4RM56
Publication number 18,
ca. 1920
4RM56
Publication number 23,
ca. 1922
4RM56
Publication number 27,
ca. 1923
4RM56
Publication number 31,
1923
4RM56
Publication number 32,
ca. 1924
4RM56
Publication number 35,
ca. 1925
4RM56
Publication number 38,
ca. 1925
4RM55c
Publication number 40,
ca. 1926
4RM56
Publication number 47,
ca. 1928
4RM55c
Oversized proof sheets,
ca. 1928
4RM56
Publication number 50,
ca. 1929
4RM56
Publication number 57,
January 23, 1937
4RM56
Publication number 58, incomplete,
ca. 1939
4RM56
Publication number 61-63, [bound together],
ca. 1942
4RM56
Publication number 63, incomplete,
ca.1942
4RM56
Publication number 68,
ca. 1953
4RM56
Offprints:
4RM56
Publications number 1-9,
1907-1916
4RM57
Publication number 10,
1916
4RM57
Publications number 11-23 [missing original offprint
of number 20, copy included for reference],
1917-1922
4RM57
Publications number 24-39a,
1923-1926
4RM57
Publications number 40-56,
1926-1936
4RM57
Publications number 57-68,
1937-1953
4RM57
Unpublished:
4RM57
"Vector composition as 'applied to' a system of
coinitial vectors in three-dimensional Euclidean space," with letter from E. H.
Moore,
March 1, 1906 and undated
4RM57
"Postulates for positive integers," with letter from
Veblen,
April 1, 1906 and undated
4RM93
Fragment on the creation of a new theory,
ca. 1908-1911
4RM57
"Concerning so-called non-metrical analysis
situs,"
ca. 1912
4RM57
Handwritten problems,
December 2-27, 1915
4RM57
On the definition of a simple closed surface, with
correspondence with J. R. Kline,
1919
4RM57
"Continuous curves from the stand-point of analysis
situs," [may have been published in the Bulletin of the AMS, volume 28,
November 1922],
ca. 1922
4RM57
"Remarks concerning C. Kuratowski's paper 'Sur les
coupures irréductibles du plan,'"
ca. 1924
4RM58
Article on "Curves, continuous" for Encyclopedia
Britannica,
1945
4RM58
Abstract beginning "In this paper it is shown that
various internal properties…,"
undated
4RM58
"Spirals,"
undated
4RM58
Foundations of Point Set
Theory:
4RM58
Draft material:
4RM58
Binder one [?],
ca. 1931
4RM58
Binder two [?],
ca. 1931
4RM58
Binder three [?],
ca. 1931
4RM58
1932 edition, correspondence and notes,
1931-1932 and undated
4RM58
Reviews,
1932-1933
4RM55c
Proof sheet of review from
Bulletin des Sciences,
1932
4RM58
1932 edition, annotated with loose notes, cover
intact, many passages cut out,
1932
4RM59
1932 edition, heavily annotated volume with missing
cover,
1932
4RM59
Loose notes removed from heavily annotated 1932
edition with missing cover,
1959-1962 and undated
4RM59
Correspondence and notes,
1931-1932, 1955-1963 and undated
4RM55b
"Proof of new theorem 32,"
undated
4RM93
Drafts of introduction to second edition, lists of
ex-students and their publications [for bibliography?],
ca. 1962
4RM59
1970 reprint,
1969-1972
4RM59
Notebooks:
4RM59
Number five, notes for colloquium lecture,
February 10, 1929
4RM59
Number 18, cover: "For Second Edition Galley Proof
and Location of DEFINITIONS For Page Proof. Glossary," plus list of professions
with numbers [ages?] next to them, [loose sheet],
ca. 1962
4RM59
Number 20, "Is Klee, V.L. in?," notes for
bibliography of second edition,
ca. 1960
4RM59
Number 43, cover: "Things to be considered in
connection with Printer's Proof,"
May 4, 1961 and ca. 1961
4RM59
Number 58, "See Theorem 67 of Chapter I of MS," four
pages of notes on revision,
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 59, cover: "Glossary and other page proof
galleys. See pages A, B, C," [loose letter],
May 12, 1962 and ca. 1962
4RM60
Number 62, cover: "For Revised Edition, I," 103
numbered pages of notes, [loose sheets],
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 63, pg. 2: "Theorem 20 (45 (a))," theorems
and proofs for revised edition,
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 66, cover: "About Figures," notes about
figures for revised edition, mainly on loose sheets,
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 67, "P. M. 226. Summer of 1951," four pages
of notes on 1951 geometry class, notes on reorganization of Foundations of
Point Set Theory, [loose sheets],
1951
4RM60
Number 68, "There is appended a bibliography…,"
notes on the preface, bibliography and appendix for revised edition, [loose
sheets],
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 71, "Definition. If A and B are two cut points…," material
for revised edition and notes on organization, [loose sheets],
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 74, cover: "Concerning Page Proof," one page
of notes on revised edition,
ca. 1960?
4RM60
Number 75, cover: "For Revised Edition 2," 40 pages
of notes, [loose sheets],
ca. 1960
4RM55c
Loose sheets removed from notebook,
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 76, cover: "Axioms 0-5. Book 2 (see Book 1),"
19 pages of notes, [loose sheets],
ca. 1960
4RM60
Number 86, notes on first edition, [in 1936 calendar
book],
ca. 1936
4RM61
Number 98, notes on revised edition, [in 1958
calendar book],
ca. 1958
4RM61
Number 100, notes on revised edition, several pages
on student's work, [in 1964 calendar book],
ca. 1964
4RM61
Number 116, "Theorem 9. If a point. . . , " notes on
revised edition and 1970 edition, draft letter re 1970 edition,
ca. 1960-1970
4RM93
Bibliographies:
4RM93
Lists of publications, short essay on RLM's own
publications, [also includes list of students],
undated
4RM61
Notes:
4RM61
"Pieces and chunks,"
1912 and undated
4RM55b
Oversized notes,
undated
4RM61
"Perfect compactness, etc.,"
ca. 1919, ca. 1957
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1957
4RM61
"Equicontinuous systems in space,"
1920-1921 and undated
4RM61
"Equicontinuity,"
1921 and undated
4RM61
"Questions about measure, density, etc.,"
1921 and undated
4RM61
"Measurability, etc.,"
1921-1924
4RM61
"Questions, etc., also some work of Reid's,"
1921-1930 and undated
4RM61
"Questions,"
1921-1947 and undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1946-1947
4RM61
"Problems,"
1921, 1938-1945, 1959-1962 and undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1959-1962
4RM61
"Definition of a surface,"
July-December 1922
4RM61
"Function theory, measure and allied pt set
questions,"
March 27, 1923 and undated
4RM61
"Questions, etc.,"
1927-1928 and undated
4RM61
"Upper semi-continuous collections, webs, etc.,"
1928, 1941-1945 and undated
4RM62
Contents of unmarked envelope, "Consequences of Axioms
0 and 1 of synopsis…," response to Kuratowski,
1929-1930
4RM62
"Foundations of plane analysis situs,"
1930 and undated
4RM62
Notepad, "Indeed with the use of Whyburn's…,"
October 20, 1930
4RM62
"Some things about pieces,"
ca. 1933 and undated
4RM62
Notepad, "If two elements…,"
June 3, 1935
4RM62
"Spirals," [notes written on Cadillac
brochure],
ca. 1937
4RM62
"Linear spaces,"
1938 and undated
4RM62
"Abstract spaces,"
1939-1941 and undated
4RM62
"Various questions etc., including some things about
spirals," and Mathematical Review with note, "Axioms for spirals in here?,"
ca. 1937-1945 and undated
4RM55b
Oversized notes,
ca. 1937
4RM62
"Concerning compactly connected spaces, continuua such
that certain collections are semi-contracting [?], etc.,"
1940, ca. 1959 and undated
4RM62
"Tangents,"
ca. 1941 and undated
4RM62
"Other subjects,"
1941-1947 and undated
4RM62
Questions,
1944
4RM62
"Upper semi-continuous collections, webs,
etc.,"
1943-1945 and undated
4RM62
"Tangents, etc.,"
September 22, 1944 and undated
4RM62
Notes and diagrams concerning an example,
ca. 1948-1959 and undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1948-1959 and undated
4RM62
"Concerning theorem (?) 87 or theorem (?) 88 of
chapter IV. Perhaps something about both?,"
ca. 1954-1957 and undated
4RM55b
Oversized notes,
ca. 1954-1957
4RM62
"Upper semi-continuous collections, etc.,"
1957 and undated
4RM62
"Complex proj. geometry question,"
undated
4RM62
"f1 (x) / f2 (x) problem,"
undated
4RM62
"Linear spaces," [1],
undated
4RM62
"Linear spaces," [2],
undated
4RM62
"Pieces,"
undated
4RM99
"Indecomposable continua which…,"
undated
4RM99
"1. Find the coordinates…,"
undated
4RM99
"Theorem 4. Let M be a compact continuous curve…,"
[copy of original from the R. L. Moore Legacy
Collection],
undated
4RM63
"Spirals,"
undated
4RM63
Three sets of partially numbered sheets of notes,
undated
4RM63
Miscellaneous:
4RM63
Older miscellaneous notes, [from Northwestern
period?],
1909 and undated
4RM63
[University of Pennsylvania period?],
ca. 1911-1920?
4RM63
1912, ca. 1952 and undated
4RM63
"Pile B,"
1920-1922, ca. 1959, and undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1959
4RM63
1921 and undated
4RM63
1922-1939, 1958-1967 and
undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1960-1967
4RM63
1924, 1956-1958 and undated
4RM63
1927-1934, 1953, 1969 and
undated
4RM63
Includes notes on spirals and empty envelope
labeled, "Crowbar theorem and other things,"
1930-1950 and undated
4RM63
1939-1940
4RM63
"Pile A," divided into sections numbered one through
three from top to bottom as found,
1939-1950 and undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes from section three,
ca. 1950 and undated
4RM63
"Found in this order,"
ca. 1937-1940, 1960 and undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1937 and undated
4RM64
1945 and undated
4RM55c
Oversized mathematical drawings and notes, written
on backs of printed University examination schedules,
ca. 1949-1957
4RM64
ca. 1956-1958 and undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
ca. 1956-1658 and undated
4RM64
1958
4RM64
1958 and undated
4RM55b
Oversized notes,
ca. 1958
4RM99
[includes sketches of faces],
undated
4RM99
Undated
4RM64
Including, "Axiom or theorem. If M is a compact
continuum every domain that contains M …,"
undated
4RM55c
Oversized notes,
undated
4RM64
Notebooks:
4RM64
Number one, "Suppose axioms 0 and 1 hold true…,"
some axioms of congruence with axioms 0 and 1 and a question concerning these
axioms, the "long line," axioms 0 and 1 and fully normal, collections of pairs
of points filling up an interval,
December 25, 1962 and undated
4RM64
Number four, cover - "Concerning windings," with
offprint of "Spirals in the plane" [publication number 68],
1953 and undated
4RM64
Number six, "Suppose. December 29, 1912, On p. 303
Lennes says…," primarily questions concerning continua,
1912, 1923-1928 and undated
4RM64
Number eight, cover - "See page A for a question,"
notes on dissertations mentioning Purifoy and Proffitt, and advanced classes in
the late 1960s, question on continua,
July 1968 and undated
4RM64
Number ten, cover - "Jackson," notes on R. E.
Jackson's dissertation, along with other notes, [loose sheets],
ca. 1968
4RM64
Number 13, cover - "Covering theorems, etc.," note
on automobile on last page,
undated
4RM64
Number 19, cover - "Axioms 0-4 and other things…,"
Axioms 0-4, questions raised by and for Miss Stevenson, 1968-169, lists of
various Ph.D. students, [loose pages, notes and student work],
1968-1969 and undated
4RM64
Number 26, "Suppose: Sihn x = …," Axioms,
conjectures, and theorems on "chunks," notes on geometry, Veblen's axioms,
[loose sheets],
1912 and undated
4RM65
Number 27, cover - "Webs," five pages of notes,
undated
4RM65
Number 31, cover - "Tentative Definitions of
Spirals, etc.," four leaves of notes,
undated
4RM65
Number 33, "4 - 2 + 3 - 4," diagrams relating to
spirals and arcs, [related to notebook number 73 in
4RM67],
undated
4RM65
Number 37, "For every positive number…,"
miscellaneous mathematical notes from the 1960s, notes on a
Wall Street Journal article by
J. K. Galbraith on the value of committees in business, draft of letter [?],
ca. 1960s
4RM65
Number 38, "Suppose - December 27, 1912," notes on
axioms for geometry, Veblen's axioms, conjectures and questions from July 6,
1924-March 5, 1927, record up to 1928 of people to whom offprints by RLM were
sent,
1912, 1924-1928 and undated
4RM65
Number 39, "By moving the minute hand forward…," on
setting a chime clock, corrections for papers, upper semi-continuous
collections, note on the high point problem of the calculus, miscellaneous
mathematical notes,
undated
4RM65
Number 41, "Suppose G is an uncountable
collection…," "Concerning question raised by Miss Stevenson," notes on
undergraduate classes, some notes on the last pages about indecomposable
continua,
undated
4RM65
Number 42, "Axiom 1. P0 There exists a sequence…,"
theorems on conditions sufficient for a Moore space to be compact,
undated
4RM65
Number 44, cover - "9," "Does there exist a bounded,
closed…," questions from the 1920s [apparently copied from other notes],
theorems on Axioms 0 and 1, [loose pages],
1958 and undated
4RM65
Number 45, cover - "Point sets with Dispersion
points. Quasi components, etc., '8.,'"
undated
4RM65
Number 46, cover - "Axioms 0 and 1-5. Book 1 (see
Book 2), '10.'" a few conjectures, notes on 1962 revision of
Foundations of Point Set
Theory, chapter four, [loose sheets],
ca. 1960s
4RM65
Number 47, cover - "7.," "Nomination Committee for
officers…," officers for American Mathematical Society, a few conjectures,
mostly on continua,
ca. 1954
4RM66
Number 48, cover - "'3.,' Collections of
arc/continua (compact) filling up plane. Examine.,"
January 1956
4RM66
Number 49, cover - "'2.,' Spirals and nearly
straight arcs. Examine.," 11 leaves of notes,
undated
4RM66
Number 50, cover - "6.," "Concerning Indecomposable
Continua," two leaves of notes,
undated
4RM66
Number 51, cover - "5.," "In the June 1958 number of
'Notices," four pages on axioms 0 and 1-5, copy of a list of universities
"highly rated" in mathematics,
ca. 1958?
4RM66
Number 52, cover - "4.," "In October 1955 Mr.
Younglove raised the question…," four pages of conjectures and questions, [one
loose page],
ca. 1955?
4RM66
Number 53, "Suppose G is a monotonic collection…,"
five pages of conjectures and questions,
undated
4RM66
Number 55, cover - "Bottles," four pages, definition
of "bottle" (in the plane), conjectures and questions,
undated
4RM66
Number 56, cover - "Paracompactness. Full Normality,
etc.," eighteen pages of notes,
undated
4RM66
Number 57, cover - "Questions," questions on
continua and others, questions copied from other notebooks dated 1925-1964,
[loose typed sheet],
1953-1964 and undated
4RM66
Number 60, cover - "Jackson," notes on R. E.
Jackson's dissertation, also mentions Purifoy, Jones and Wallace, [loose
page],
ca. 1969
4RM66
Number 64, cover - "For Second Edition,"
[Foundations of Point Set Theory?], 41 numbered pages, [loose pages and
sheets],
ca. 1960?
4RM66
Number 65, "Upper semi-continuous collections of
continua," plus notes on spirals, [loose sheet],
undated
4RM67
Number 70, "Let AB denote an interval on the
X-axis…," an incomplete example involving Cantor Set,
undated
4RM67
Number 72, cover - "SPIRALS," 131 numbered pages on
spirals, [loose sheets],
undated
4RM67
Number 73, "Fundamental Questions concerning
calculus," questions on spirals, many diagrams, [related
to notebook number 33 in 4RM65], [loose pages and sheets],
undated
4RM67
Number 77, [1929 calendar book], notes on compact
continua, some on connected sets and spirals, last few pages are health notes,
1933-1940, 1954
4RM67
Number 78, [1931 calendar book], questions and
theorems on variations of Axiom 1, etc.,
December 6, 1938-December 12, 1953 and
undated
4RM67
Number 79, [1932 calendar book], "Tangents,"
definition of tangent to closed point set and tangent to continuum, statements
about sharp points,
December 24, 1943-October 1, 1944
4RM67
Number 80, [1932 calendar book], "Mrs. Etta Nemetz,"
variations and questions on Axiom 1, statements of spirals from 1941,
collections of continua, and topological equivalence,
July 4, 1938-April 28, 1954
4RM67
Number 81, [1933 calendar book], some statements on
"linear" spaces and metric spaces, variations on Axiom 1, questions concerning
Axiom 1 and separable point sets, miscellaneous statements on Axiom 1,
July 6, 1938-April 28, 1954
4RM68
Number 83, [1934 calendar book], calculus notes,
question on compact continua, question by Mr. Mauldin,
ca. 1960s and undated
4RM68
Number 85, [1936 calendar book], Variations on
Axioms 1, on the notion of "embedded in," statements on compact continua,
[loose scrap],
June 21, 1947-February 14, 1959 and undated
4RM68
Number 90, [1939 daily desk calendar], upper
semi-continuous collections (March 26, 1944), variations of Axiom 1 (January
17, 1954), [loose sheet],
1939-1954
4RM68
Number 91, [1940 daily desk calendar], on
homogeneous spaces; questions on Axioms 4 and 5, on sufficient conditions for a
space to be metric, and on spirals; questions and theorems on continua and
collections of continua like webs, [loose sheets],
October 11, 1940-May 18, 1948, June 21,
1959
4RM68
Number 92, [1941 daily desk calendar], two pages of
notes,
October 12, 1951 and January 2, 1955
4RM68
Number 93, [1942 daily desk calendar], statements
concerning upper semi-continuous collections, miscellaneous notes, mostly on
continua, [loose sheets],
July 6, 1942-July 18, 1947
4RM69
Number 96, [1955 calendar book], notes on theorems
proven in a class, definition of a space of n-dimensions,
January 12, 1955-September 3, 1957
4RM69
Number 101, [1960 calendar book], questions copied
from old papers,
December 9, 1972-December 12, 1972
4RM69
Number 104, [1937 calendar book], notes on compact
continua, notes on collections of point sets including upper semi-continuous
and equicontinuous collections, [loose sheet],
1936-1939, 1949-1951
4RM69
Number 105, [1950 calendar book], on spirals and
whirls,
undated
4RM69
Number 110, "No connected subset of D containing…,"
questions and theorem on continua, some notes on 1928 student work in class,
notably G. T. Whyburn, other questions and comments, [loose sheets],
February 16, 1928-February 23, 1929
4RM69
Number 111, "Axiom. If G is a set of regions
covering S…," some axioms; theorems and questions on continua, [loose
pages],
January 22, 1927-October 18, 1927
4RM69
Number 112, "1. Show that [?] impossible…,"
scratchpad from 1920s? with several mathematical notes, [loose pages],
ca. 1920s?
4RM69
Number 113, Theorems, proofs, and questions
concerned with collections of point sets, primarily upper semi-continuous
collections, [loose page],
1928-1930
4RM69
Number 114, "If in a space of two dimensions…,"
theorems and questions on indecomposable continua and on connected sets
(continua, upper semi-continuous collections, continuous curves), [loose
sheets],
September 1925-April 13, 1926 and undated
4RM69
Number 115, "Concerning Miss Stevenson's argument
for 55," notes from the late 1960s, includes list of faculty at other
institutions, [loose sheets],
1940, 1947, ca. 1960s
4RM69
Number 117, cover - "Bottles. Continua stuck in
other continua, etc.," one side of notebook contains copies (from manuscript
for
Foundations of Point Set
Theory?) of notes on results of students concerning
FPST, other side has notes on bottles and
collections of mutually exclusive continua,
ca. 1960s and undated
4RM99
Unnumbered:
4RM99
[1937 calendar], "Curve, Jordan (M. C.)
1838-1922…,"
April 21, 1946-May 16, 1946
4RM99
[1957 calendar], "Recently, I believe…," notes on
proof by Mr. Younglove,
August 16, 1957
4RM99
[1944 calendar], "What if "(4) of the piece k is
embedded…," [includes loose sheet],
undated
4RM69
Manuscripts by others:
4RM69
Letters about refereed papers, including
correspondence with E. W. Chittenden, A. B. Coble, A. Cohn, D. R. Curtiss, G.
H. Draper, and H. H. Mitchel,
1916-1934 and undated
4RM69
R. D. Anderson, dissertation and "Basic Continuum"
manuscript,
May 1948 and undated
4RM69
Armentrout, NSF proposal,
March 1965
4RM69
H. L. Baker, "The term monotonic has been applied…,"
undated
4RM70
Mrs. Blanche Baker (Monger), "Lemma 1. If, in a space
satisfying Axioms 0, 1-5…,"
undated
4RM70
B. J. Ball, "Some theorems concerning spirals on the
plane," and "Concerning continuous and equicontinuous collections of
arcs,"
1952 and undated
4RM70
Bennett, RLM's report on Bennett's paper and
correspondence with Professor L. E. Dickson,
January 1914
4RM70
B. A. Bernstein, "A set of four independent postulates
for the logic of classes,"
July 1915
See Also: General professional
correspondence, 4RM77, January 18, 1916 draft of letter from RLM to L. E.
Dickson
4RM70
R. H. Bing, "A translation of the normal Moore space
conjecture," "A homogeneous indecomposable plane continuum," and "Concerning
simple plane webs,"
undated
4RM70
C. E. Burgess, "Theorem 1. If the continuum M is not
the sum…,"
undated
4RM70
E. Cech, "On pseduomanifolds,"
1935
4RM70
E. W. Chittenden (and A. D. Pitcher), correspondence
and notes re "On the theory of developments of an abstract class…" [with
Pitcher], and "Notes on the division of plane…," G. T. Whyburn's notes on a
course taught by Chittenden,
1918-1926
4RM55c
Proofs for "On the theory of developments of an
abstract class…" [with Pitcher],
ca. 1919
4RM70
H. Cook, nine papers,
1963-1966 and undated
4RM70
J. L. Cornette, four articles and related
correspondence,
1965-1966
4RM70
J. Daniels, "The Texas Method and the Small Group
Discovery Method,"
November 1972
4RM70
R. Demar, "Metric spaces over partially ordered
semi-groups,"
March 1963
4RM70
S. E. Dyer, dissertation,
1952
4RM70
M. Fréchet, "Relations entre les notions de limite et
de distance,"
1917
4RM70
Sharon Garner, quiz with extended narrative of her
thoughts on the course,
January 1963
4RM70
J. W. Green, three articles,
undated
4RM70
P. R. Halmos, "The Legend of John von Neumann,"
undated
4RM70
[George Bruce Halsted -- See "General" series below
for works by and about Halsted]
4RM70
P. C. Hammer, three articles,
1964 and undated
4RM70
M. E. Hamstrom, dissertation, notes and paper,
1952 and undated
4RM70
Hedrick and Ingold, RLM's notes and response to their
paper,
October 1913
4RM70
G. W. Henderson, draft of dissertation with RLM's
notes,
ca. 1959
4RM55b
Oversized notes,
undated
4RM70
J. W. Hinrichson, three papers,
ca. 1970 and undated
4RM70
Huntington, RLM's response and notes on article,
reviewed for the American Mathematical Society,
1913
See also: 4RM77, General professional
correspondence, letter draft from RLM to Smith, October 17, 1916
4RM70
Ingraham, RLM's response to Hedrick about Ingraham's
paper,
May 5, 1922
4RM71
J. R. Isbell, "A note on theorem of R. L.
Moore,"
December 1951
4RM71
J. Jasper, for Math 688, "Counterexample to the
conjecture: If M is compact, M is compact,"
undated
4RM71
F. B. Jones, two papers,
1938 and undated
4RM71
R. Kubala, "Theorem 37. If M is a point set…,"
[handwritten manuscript],
undated
4RM71
Harry Lucas, Jr., Notebook 7, "There exists a sequence
G1, G2, G3, … such that,"
undated
4RM71
L. F. McAuley, proof of the "Arc Theorem,"
1950
4RM71
J. S. MacNerney, "Finitely additive set functions,"
1974
4RM71
Mahoney, "Sufficient conditions for the unicoherence
of certain compact continua,"
undated
4RM71
D. Mauldin, "Theorem. If M is closed and compact…,"
undated
4RM71
E. H. Moore, notes by EHM and RLM,
1908-1911
4RM71
D. Moreman, proofs,
undated
4RM71
J. L. O'Connor, "Supercompactness of compact metric
spaces,"
undated
4RM71
W. A. Pierce, "Some new planes,"
June 1965
4RM71
Purifoy, Notebook 3a, "If x is a point and Ex…," RLM's
notes on Purifoy's dissertation, draft of letter on Purifoy's exam,
ca. 1969
4RM55c
J. H. Roberts, proofs of "A property related to
completeness" for the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society,"
undated
4RM71
M. Rogers, "1. There exists a space…,"
undated
4RM71
M. E. Rudin, various papers, proofs and notes,
undated
4RM71
N. E. Rutt, "Let x be a plane…,"
undated
4RM71
[A. R.] Schweitzer, correspondence with Hedrick and
Bôcher regarding Schweitzer's papers,
1908, 1921
4RM71
J. M. Skye, "Holes," and "Relative holes,"
undated
4RM71
H. B. Smith, "The most general problem of logic and
the postulates essential to its solution,"
1933
4RM71
Nell E. Stevenson, one paper and a handwritten proof,
ca. 1970 and undated
4RM71
L. Bruce Treybig, dissertation draft,
ca. 1958
4RM71
K. R. Van Doren, student work, papers, and notes,
undated
4RM71
O. Veblen and W. H. Bussey, notes,
1913-1915 and undated
4RM71
C. W. Vickery, "Sets of independent axioms for Moore
spaces and metric spaces,"
undated
4RM71
Whittemore, drafts of RLM's response to Bôcher
regarding Whittemore's paper,
1913
4RM71
G. T. Whyburn [?], paper and proofs,
undated
4RM71
Wiener, RLM's draft of response to Professor Dickson
on Weiner's paper,
undated
4RM71
[R. L. Wilder], "Analysis situs (position analysis),"
"Point sets," and correspondence,
1928
4RM71
J. M. Worrell, Jr., dissertation draft, notes and
article,
1959-1961?
4RM72
Unidentified authors:
4RM72
"Chapter I. Classification of Sciences into…,"
undated
4RM72
"The foundations of geometry: A new perspective,"
undated
4RM72
"Corollary C…," with RLM's notes,
undated
4RM72
Page 2, "If fn is the nth term of q…,"
undated
4RM72
"On spirals in the plane," typed manuscript and
notes,
ca. 1955 and undated
4RM72
Page 3.1, "3. A weaker form of the monotonic mapping
theorem," [mimeographed sheets],
undated
4RM72
"Concerning connectedness near a point set,"
undated
4RM72
"Theorem: If J is a bounded closed curve and J'…,"
undated
4RM72
"Lemma 3c. If R is a region…,"
undated
4RM72
"Definition 1: If M is a compact continuum…,"
undated
4RM72
"Summary of my paper on generalisation [sp] of
Cleveland's Theorem," typescript with handwritten note, "Sent to the American
Journal,"
undated
4RM72
"Certain theorems will be proved about a property…,"
undated
4RM72
"Theorem: If M is a point-set lying on interval
AB…,"
undated
4RM72
"Proposition 10. For if h1, h2, h3, …,"
undated
4RM72
"Corollary B. If R is a region containing the point
P…,"
undated
4RM72
"Theorem: If N is a nondegenerate decomposable
compact continuum…,"
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