A Guide to the John S. Griffin Jr. Papers, 1929-1962


Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Griffin, John S. Jr.
	Title:	John S. Griffin Jr. Papers
	Dates:	1929-1962
	Abstract:	These papers document mathematician John S. Griffin Jr.'s education and industrial career.
	Accession No.:	2004-122
	Extent:	7 inches
	Laguage:	Materials are written in English, French, Greek and Polish.
	Repository:	Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin

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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Index Terms


		Griffin, John S. Jr.
		Tulane University
		Tulane University, Department of Mathematics
		IBM, Endicott Laboratories

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

John S. Griffin Jr. Papers, 1929-1962, Archives of American Mathematics, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Detailed Description of the Papers

Reprints [collected by Griffin]:

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Geometrie sur les surfaces et les varietes algegbriques (Lefschetz), 1929

Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles: Le Parallelisme Absolu et la Theorie Unitare Du Champ (Cartan), 1932

Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles: La Topologie des Groupes de Lie (Cartan), 1936

Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles: Integralgeometrie (Blaschke), 1935

Acualites Scientifiques et Industrielles: Sur les Groupes Classiques (Dieudonne), 1948

Rozprawy Matematyczne (Dubikajtis), 1958

[Greek Publication] 1958

[Greek Publication, copy], 1953

Relations entre les complexes de le Rham et d' Alexandre (Papy), 1956

Lecture notes of Richard Brauer: Spherical harmonics, undated

Session Papers [with annotations], 1959

Manuscripts:

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Borel on the Leray theory, 1951

"Lectures on differential geometry in the large, undated

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

"Affine Connections in Terms of a Tangent Bundle," 1953-1961

Course materials:

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"Samelson- Algebraic Topology," 1949-1950

"Notes for Mathematics 235, Differential Geometry- University of Michigan, Fall 1958," 1958

"Vector Analysis Course, Spring 1962," 1962

""Eckerman- Differentiable Mainfolds," 1950

Correspondence:

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Steve Hu, Wayne State University, "Hu's Manuscript and C; ," 1957-1959