Descriptive Summary
Griffin, John S.
Jr.
John S. Griffin Jr. Papers
1929-1962Materials are
written in English, French, Greek and
Polish.
2004-122
7 inches
Archives of American Mathematics, Center for
American History,The University of Texas at
Austin
These papers document
mathematician John S. Griffin Jr.'s education and industrial career.
Biographical Note
Trained as a topologist, Dr. John Sanders Griffin Jr. received his Ph.
D. at Tulane in 1956, with a dissertation entitled
A Notion of Parallelism in General Fibre
Bundles. He taught and completed post-graduate study at the University
of Michigan. Later, he joined the staff at IBM's Endicott Laboratories.
Scope and Contents
Most notably, these papers contain Griffin's personal collection of
reprints, manuscripts and journals. There are materials in French, Polish, and
Greek. Also included are course materials from Griffin's education, and some
professional correspondence.
Forms part of the Archives of American Mathematics
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Preferred Citation
John S. Griffin Jr. Papers, 1929-1962, Archives of American
Mathematics, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Index Terms
Griffin, John S. Jr.
Tulane University
Tulane University, Department of
Mathematics
IBM, Endicott Laboratories
Detailed Description of the Papers
Reprints [collected by Griffin]:
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Geometrie sur les surfaces et les varietes algegbriques
(Lefschetz),
1929
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Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles: Le
Parallelisme Absolu et la Theorie Unitare Du Champ (Cartan),
1932
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Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles: La Topologie
des Groupes de Lie (Cartan),
1936
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Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles:
Integralgeometrie (Blaschke),
1935
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Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles: Sur les
Groupes Classiques (Dieudonne),
1948
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Rozprawy Matematyczne (Dubikajtis),
1958
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[Greek Publication]
1958
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[Greek Publication, copy],
1953
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Relations entre les complexes de le Rham et d'
Alexandre (Papy),
1956
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Lecture notes of Richard Brauer: Spherical harmonics,
undated
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Session Papers [with annotations],
1959
Manuscripts:
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Borel on the Leray theory,
1951
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"Lectures on differential geometry in the large,
undated
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A notion of parallelism in general fibre bundles,
undated
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Thesis Abstract, Transfinite sequences,
ca. 1952
Manuscript, notes, correspondence
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"The Metrizability of the Bundle Space,"
1953-1958
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"Affine Connections in Terms of a Tangent Bundle,"
1953-1961
Course materials:
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"Samelson- Algebraic Topology,"
1949-1950
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"Notes for Mathematics 235, Differential Geometry-
University of Michigan, Fall 1958,"
1958
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"Vector Analysis Course, Spring 1962,"
1962
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""Eckerman- Differentiable Mainfolds,"
1950
Correspondence:
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Steve Hu, Wayne State University, "Hu's Manuscript and
C; ,"
1957-1959